{"id":229895,"date":"2026-01-27T02:31:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/high-resolution-map-shows-dark-matters-gravity-pulled-normal-matter-into-galaxies"},"modified":"2026-01-27T02:31:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:31:56","slug":"high-resolution-map-shows-dark-matters-gravity-pulled-normal-matter-into-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/high-resolution-map-shows-dark-matters-gravity-pulled-normal-matter-into-galaxies","title":{"rendered":"High-resolution map shows dark matter\u2019s gravity pulled normal matter into galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/high-resolution-map-shows-dark-matters-gravity-pulled-normal-matter-into-galaxies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the universe\u2014showing its influence on the formation of stars, galaxies and planets.<\/p>\n<p>The research, including astronomers from Durham University, UK, tells us more about how this invisible substance helped pull ordinary matter into galaxies like the Milky Way and planets like Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, using new data from NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41550-025-02763-9\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Nature Astronomy.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the universe\u2014showing its influence on the formation of stars, galaxies and planets. The research, including astronomers from Durham University, UK, tells us more about how this invisible substance helped pull ordinary matter into galaxies like the Milky Way and planets like [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229895","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=229895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}