{"id":220760,"date":"2025-08-23T08:05:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/exoplanets-could-be-key-to-finding-mysterious-dark-matter-study"},"modified":"2025-08-23T08:05:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:05:02","slug":"exoplanets-could-be-key-to-finding-mysterious-dark-matter-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/exoplanets-could-be-key-to-finding-mysterious-dark-matter-study","title":{"rendered":"Exoplanets could be key to finding mysterious dark matter: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1OaK_c9cLF4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dark matter could turn exoplanets into tiny black holes, shocking study reveals.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A study suggests that exoplanets could be used to search for dark matter \u2014 the elusive substance that makes up 85% of the universe\u2019s matter.<\/p>\n<p>Dark matter\u2019s gravitational pull proves it exists, but we\u2019ve never been able to directly find it.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the University of California, Riverside, study proposes that exoplanets, especially large, gaseous ones like Jupiter, could act as natural laboratories for dark matter search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark matter could turn exoplanets into tiny black holes, shocking study reveals. A study suggests that exoplanets could be used to search for dark matter \u2014 the elusive substance that makes up 85% of the universe\u2019s matter. Dark matter\u2019s gravitational pull proves it exists, but we\u2019ve never been able to directly find it. Now, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}