{"id":230442,"date":"2026-02-03T06:08:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T12:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/a-huge-cloud-of-dark-matter-may-be-lurking-near-our-solar-system"},"modified":"2026-02-03T06:08:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T12:08:45","slug":"a-huge-cloud-of-dark-matter-may-be-lurking-near-our-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/a-huge-cloud-of-dark-matter-may-be-lurking-near-our-solar-system","title":{"rendered":"A huge cloud of dark matter may be lurking near our solar system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-huge-cloud-of-dark-matter-may-be-lurking-near-our-solar-system.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, researchers have found what seems to be a cloud of dark matter about 60 million times the mass of the sun in our galactic neighbourhood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, researchers have found what seems to be a cloud of dark matter about 60 million times the mass of the sun in our galactic neighbourhood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230442","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}