{"id":31331,"date":"2016-10-23T15:47:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T22:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/our-dark-energy-dominated-accelerating-universe-flimsier-than-previously-thought"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:26:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:26:31","slug":"our-dark-energy-dominated-accelerating-universe-flimsier-than-previously-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/our-dark-energy-dominated-accelerating-universe-flimsier-than-previously-thought","title":{"rendered":"Our Dark-Energy-Dominated Accelerating Universe \u2013\u201cFlimsier Than Previously Thought\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/our-dark-energy-dominated-accelerating-universe-flimsier-than-previously-thought.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Five years ago, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three astronomers for their discovery, in the late 1990s, that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace. Their conclusions were based on analysis of Type Ia supernovae \u2014 the spectacular thermonuclear explosion of dying stars \u2014 picked up by the Hubble space telescope and large ground-based telescopes. It led to the widespread acceptance of the idea that the universe is dominated by a mysterious substance named \u2018dark energy\u2019 that drives this accelerating expansion.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailygalaxy.com\/my_weblog\/2016\/10\/our-dark-energy-dominated-accelerating-universe-flimsier-than-previously-thought.html\">http:\/\/www.dailygalaxy.com\/my_weblog\/2016\/10\/our-dark-energy...ought.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three astronomers for their discovery, in the late 1990s, that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace. Their conclusions were based on analysis of Type Ia supernovae \u2014 the spectacular thermonuclear explosion of dying stars \u2014 picked up by the Hubble space telescope [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31331","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=31331"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49707,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31331\/revisions\/49707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}