{"id":243527,"date":"2026-09-02T17:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T22:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/simulations-show-that-dark-matter-isnt-what-gives-stellar-streams-their-kinks"},"modified":"2026-09-02T17:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T22:04:16","slug":"simulations-show-that-dark-matter-isnt-what-gives-stellar-streams-their-kinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/simulations-show-that-dark-matter-isnt-what-gives-stellar-streams-their-kinks","title":{"rendered":"Simulations Show That Dark Matter Isn\u2019t What Gives Stellar Streams Their Kinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/simulations-show-that-dark-matter-isnt-what-gives-stellar-streams-their-kinks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers study dark matter through simulations of stellar streams around the Milky Way. They found that kinks and clumps within these streams aren\u2019t caused by dark matter clusters within the galactic halo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers study dark matter through simulations of stellar streams around the Milky Way. They found that kinks and clumps within these streams aren\u2019t caused by dark matter clusters within the galactic halo.<\/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-243527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243527","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=243527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}