{"id":57195,"date":"2017-05-04T10:22:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T17:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/astronomers-capture-the-first-image-of-the-dark-matter-that-holds-the-universe-together"},"modified":"2017-05-04T10:22:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T17:22:40","slug":"astronomers-capture-the-first-image-of-the-dark-matter-that-holds-the-universe-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/astronomers-capture-the-first-image-of-the-dark-matter-that-holds-the-universe-together","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Capture the First \u2018Image\u2019 of the Dark Matter That Holds the Universe Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-capture-the-first-image-of-the-dark-matter-that-holds-the-universe-together.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For decades, scientists have tracked hints of a thread-like structure that ties together galaxies across the universe. Theories, computer models, and indirect observations have indicated that there is a cosmic web of dark matter that connects galaxies and constitutes the large-scale structure of the cosmos. But while the filaments that make up this web are massive, dark matter is incredibly difficult to observe.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers have produced what they say is the first composite image of a dark matter filament that connects galaxies together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis image moves us beyond predictions to something we can see and measure,\u201d said Mike Hudson, a professor of astronomy at the University of Waterloo in Canada, co-author of a <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/mnras\/article-lookup\/doi\/10.1093\/mnras\/stx517\">new study<\/a> published in the <em>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seeker.com\/space\/astronomy\/astronomers-capture-the-first-image-of-the-dark-matter-that-holds-the-universe-together?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=dnewssocial\">https:\/\/www.seeker.com\/space\/astronomy\/astronomers-capture-t...newssocial<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, scientists have tracked hints of a thread-like structure that ties together galaxies across the universe. Theories, computer models, and indirect observations have indicated that there is a cosmic web of dark matter that connects galaxies and constitutes the large-scale structure of the cosmos. But while the filaments that make up this web are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57195","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=57195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}