{"id":226545,"date":"2025-12-05T00:34:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/astrophysicists-test-a-new-piece-of-the-sky-to-probe-dark-matter-and-dark-energy"},"modified":"2025-12-05T00:34:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:34:18","slug":"astrophysicists-test-a-new-piece-of-the-sky-to-probe-dark-matter-and-dark-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/astrophysicists-test-a-new-piece-of-the-sky-to-probe-dark-matter-and-dark-energy","title":{"rendered":"Astrophysicists test a new piece of the sky to probe dark matter and dark energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astrophysicists-test-a-new-piece-of-the-sky-to-probe-dark-matter-and-dark-energy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy. Exactly what these dark components are remains a mystery, but they have a tremendous impact on our universe, with dark matter exerting a gravitational pull and dark energy driving the universe\u2019s accelerating expansion.<\/p>\n<p>What scientists know about dark matter and dark energy comes from observing their effects on the visible universe. Astrophysicists from the University of Chicago have measured those effects on a new patch of sky to illuminate the invisible cosmos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy. Exactly what these dark components are remains a mystery, but they have a tremendous impact on our universe, with dark matter exerting a gravitational pull and dark energy driving the universe\u2019s accelerating [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226545","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=226545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}