{"id":23679,"date":"2016-03-18T03:47:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T10:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/new-dark-matter-theory-weighs-superheavy-particle"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:05:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:05:42","slug":"new-dark-matter-theory-weighs-superheavy-particle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/new-dark-matter-theory-weighs-superheavy-particle","title":{"rendered":"New Dark Matter Theory Weighs Superheavy Particle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-dark-matter-theory-weighs-superheavy-particle.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dark matter could be made of particles that each weigh almost as much as a human cell and are nearly dense enough to become miniature black holes, new research suggests.<\/p>\n<p>While dark matter is thought to make up five-sixths of all matter in the universe, scientists don\u2019t know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/25709-dark-matter-hunt-exotic-particles.html\">what this strange stuff is made of<\/a>. True to its name, dark matter is invisible \u2014 it does not emit, reflect or even block light. As a result, dark matter can currently be studied only through its gravitational effects on normal matter. The nature of dark matter is currently one of the greatest mysteries in science.<\/p>\n<p>If dark matter is made of such superheavy particles, astronomers could detect evidence of them in the afterglow of the Big Bang, the authors of a new research study said. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/20502-dark-matter-universe-mystery-infographic.html\">Dark Matter Explained (Infographic)<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/32295-super-heavy-dark-matter-particle-proposed.html\">http:\/\/www.space.com\/32295-super-heavy-dark-matter-particle-proposed.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark matter could be made of particles that each weigh almost as much as a human cell and are nearly dense enough to become miniature black holes, new research suggests. While dark matter is thought to make up five-sixths of all matter in the universe, scientists don\u2019t know what this strange stuff is made of. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23679","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67969,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23679\/revisions\/67969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}