{"id":235590,"date":"2026-04-20T22:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/a-cosmic-crash-turned-this-nearby-galaxy-into-chaos"},"modified":"2026-04-20T22:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:26:09","slug":"a-cosmic-crash-turned-this-nearby-galaxy-into-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/a-cosmic-crash-turned-this-nearby-galaxy-into-chaos","title":{"rendered":"A Cosmic Crash Turned This Nearby Galaxy Into Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-cosmic-crash-turned-this-nearby-galaxy-into-chaos.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A nearby galaxy long treated as a stable cosmic reference is revealing a far more dynamic and turbulent history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nearby galaxy long treated as a stable cosmic reference is revealing a far more dynamic and turbulent history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235590","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=235590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}