{"id":225927,"date":"2025-11-26T01:34:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/after-nearly-100-years-scientists-may-have-detected-dark-matter"},"modified":"2025-11-26T01:34:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:34:16","slug":"after-nearly-100-years-scientists-may-have-detected-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/after-nearly-100-years-scientists-may-have-detected-dark-matter","title":{"rendered":"After nearly 100 years, scientists may have detected dark matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/after-nearly-100-years-scientists-may-have-detected-dark-matter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the early 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed galaxies in space moving faster than their mass should allow, prompting him to infer the presence of some invisible scaffolding\u2014dark matter\u2014holding the galaxies together. Nearly 100 years later, NASA\u2019s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope may have provided direct evidence of dark matter, allowing the invisible matter to be \u201cseen\u201d for the very first time.<\/p>\n<p>Dark matter has remained largely a mystery since it was proposed so many years ago. Up to this point, scientists have only been able to indirectly observe dark matter through its effects on observable matter, such as its ability to generate enough gravitational force to hold galaxies together.<\/p>\n<p>The reason dark matter can\u2019t be observed directly is that the particles that make up dark matter don\u2019t interact with electromagnetic force\u2014meaning dark matter doesn\u2019t absorb, reflect or emit light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed galaxies in space moving faster than their mass should allow, prompting him to infer the presence of some invisible scaffolding\u2014dark matter\u2014holding the galaxies together. Nearly 100 years later, NASA\u2019s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope may have provided direct evidence of dark matter, allowing the invisible matter to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225927","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}