{"id":240911,"date":"2026-07-15T08:04:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/a-large-amount-of-the-universe-is-missing-scientists-think-they-may-have-found-it"},"modified":"2026-07-15T08:04:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:04:30","slug":"a-large-amount-of-the-universe-is-missing-scientists-think-they-may-have-found-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/a-large-amount-of-the-universe-is-missing-scientists-think-they-may-have-found-it","title":{"rendered":"A large amount of the Universe is missing. Scientists think they may have found it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-large-amount-of-the-universe-is-missing-scientists-think-they-may-have-found-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There must be some extra mass that we can\u2019t see \u2013 and astronomers call this \u2018dark matter\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers don\u2019t know what dark matter is. And it turns out there\u2019s quite a lot they don\u2019t know about ordinary matter, either.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, quite a lot of \u2018normal\u2019 matter is missing. But astronomers now think they might have found it \u2013 and it\u2019s been hiding in plain sight all along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There must be some extra mass that we can\u2019t see \u2013 and astronomers call this \u2018dark matter\u2019 Astronomers don\u2019t know what dark matter is. And it turns out there\u2019s quite a lot they don\u2019t know about ordinary matter, either. In fact, quite a lot of \u2018normal\u2019 matter is missing. But astronomers now think they might [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240911","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}