{"id":230010,"date":"2026-01-28T17:17:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T23:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/scientists-may-be-approaching-a-fundamental-breakthrough-in-cosmology-and-particle-physics-if-dark-matter-and-ghost-particles-can-interact"},"modified":"2026-01-28T17:17:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T23:17:26","slug":"scientists-may-be-approaching-a-fundamental-breakthrough-in-cosmology-and-particle-physics-if-dark-matter-and-ghost-particles-can-interact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/scientists-may-be-approaching-a-fundamental-breakthrough-in-cosmology-and-particle-physics-if-dark-matter-and-ghost-particles-can-interact","title":{"rendered":"Scientists may be approaching a \u2018fundamental breakthrough in cosmology and particle physics\u2019 \u2014 if dark matter and \u2019ghost particles\u2019 can interact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-may-be-approaching-a-fundamental-breakthrough-in-cosmology-and-particle-physics-if-dark-matter-and-ghost-particles-can-interact2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a \u201cfundamental breakthrough\u201d that challenges our understanding of how the universe evolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a \u201cfundamental breakthrough\u201d that challenges our understanding of how the universe evolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230010","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\/230010","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}