{"id":233840,"date":"2026-03-22T14:04:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T19:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/the-universe-is-racing-apart-we-may-finally-know-why"},"modified":"2026-03-22T14:04:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T19:04:41","slug":"the-universe-is-racing-apart-we-may-finally-know-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/the-universe-is-racing-apart-we-may-finally-know-why","title":{"rendered":"The Universe Is Racing Apart. We May Finally Know Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qNCCDX32XYE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Get a special 35% discount on an annual digital subscription to The Economist at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/PBS\">https:\/\/www.economist.com\/PBS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve known that the universe is expanding since 1929, and that its expansion is accelerating since 1998. The culprit behind the acceleration is unknown, so we live with a stand-in term \\.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get a special 35% discount on an annual digital subscription to The Economist at https:\/\/www.economist.com\/PBS We\u2019ve known that the universe is expanding since 1929, and that its expansion is accelerating since 1998. The culprit behind the acceleration is unknown, so we live with a stand-in term \\.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233840","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=233840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}