{"id":232083,"date":"2026-02-25T14:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/hubble-spotted-a-dark-galaxy-thats-at-least-99-9-dark-matter"},"modified":"2026-02-25T14:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:26:07","slug":"hubble-spotted-a-dark-galaxy-thats-at-least-99-9-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/hubble-spotted-a-dark-galaxy-thats-at-least-99-9-dark-matter","title":{"rendered":"Hubble spotted a \u2018dark galaxy\u2019 that\u2019s at least 99.9% dark matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hubble-spotted-a-dark-galaxy-thats-at-least-99-9-dark-matter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using the Hubble Space Telescope in combination with other observatories, astronomers identified an unusually dim galaxy, known as candidate dark galaxy-2, that appears to be almost entirely dominated by dark matter.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Search through space telescope\u2019s archival images reveals unusually dim galaxy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the Hubble Space Telescope in combination with other observatories, astronomers identified an unusually dim galaxy, known as candidate dark galaxy-2, that appears to be almost entirely dominated by dark matter. Search through space telescope\u2019s archival images reveals unusually dim galaxy.<\/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-232083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232083","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=232083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}