{"id":77233,"date":"2018-03-28T12:03:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T19:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/rare-galaxy-found-without-any-dark-matter"},"modified":"2018-03-28T12:03:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T19:03:08","slug":"rare-galaxy-found-without-any-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/rare-galaxy-found-without-any-dark-matter","title":{"rendered":"Rare galaxy found without any dark matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rare-galaxy-found-without-any-dark-matter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Millions of light-years from Earth, there\u2019s a galaxy that is completely devoid of dark matter \u2014 the mysterious, unseen material that is thought to permeate the Universe. Instead, the galaxy seems to be made up of just regular ol\u2019 matter, the kind that comprises stars, planets, and dust. That makes this galaxy a rare find, and its discovery opens up new possibilities for how dark matter is distributed throughout the cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>No one knows what dark matter is. True to its name, the material doesn\u2019t emit light, so we\u2019ve never detected it directly. All scientists know is that it\u2019s out there based on their observations of how galaxies and stars move. Some unseen substance is affecting these deep-space objects, filling up the space between stars and clusters of galaxies. And there seems to be a lot of it. Dark matter is thought to make up 27 percent of all the mass and energy of the Universe. The matter we <em>can<\/em> see \u2014 the atoms that make up you and me \u2014 accounts for just 5 percent.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/3\/28\/17169782\/dark-matter-galaxy-ngc-1052-df2-dragonfly-telephoto-array\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/3\/28\/17169782\/dark-matter-gala...hoto-array<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of light-years from Earth, there\u2019s a galaxy that is completely devoid of dark matter \u2014 the mysterious, unseen material that is thought to permeate the Universe. Instead, the galaxy seems to be made up of just regular ol\u2019 matter, the kind that comprises stars, planets, and dust. That makes this galaxy a rare find, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77233","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=77233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}