{"id":77214,"date":"2018-03-27T17:42:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T00:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/could-higgs-bosons-and-primordial-black-holes-explain-dark-matter"},"modified":"2018-03-27T17:42:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T00:42:40","slug":"could-higgs-bosons-and-primordial-black-holes-explain-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/could-higgs-bosons-and-primordial-black-holes-explain-dark-matter","title":{"rendered":"Could Higgs Bosons and Primordial Black Holes Explain Dark Matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-higgs-bosons-and-primordial-black-holes-explain-dark-matter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Without an actual discovery, it can be difficult to convince us laypeople that there\u2019s really such a thing as \u201cdark matter.\u201d It seems to interact with our universe solely through gravity, and no experiment has detected it here on Earth yet. So what if there\u2019s an explanation to what\u2019s causing the dark matter\u2019s using physics that already exists, like Higgs bosons and black holes?<\/p>\n<p>A team of three European physicists<strong> <\/strong>has made what could be seen as a controversial statement: \u201cThe existence of dark matter might not require physics beyond the standard model.\u201d It\u2019s still just a hypothesis as the hunt for dark matter continues, but it\u2019s an interesting thought to digest.<\/p>\n<p>First, you might be wondering what I\u2019m talking about at all. You only experience regular matter in your day-to-day life\u2014it\u2019s what makes up every planet, star, and galaxy. But astronomical observations imply that there\u2019s gravity from six times more matter in the universe, stuff we can\u2019t see with our eyes or instruments, called dark matter. As of yet, lots of experiments have tried and failed to identify the source of this gravity.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/could-higgs-bosons-and-primordial-black-holes-explain-d-1824091299\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/could-higgs-bosons-and-primordial-black-...1824091299<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without an actual discovery, it can be difficult to convince us laypeople that there\u2019s really such a thing as \u201cdark matter.\u201d It seems to interact with our universe solely through gravity, and no experiment has detected it here on Earth yet. So what if there\u2019s an explanation to what\u2019s causing the dark matter\u2019s using physics [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77214","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}