{"id":81802,"date":"2018-08-17T11:05:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T18:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/the-universes-oldest-galaxies-could-be-right-in-the-milky-ways-backyard"},"modified":"2018-08-17T11:05:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T18:05:13","slug":"the-universes-oldest-galaxies-could-be-right-in-the-milky-ways-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/the-universes-oldest-galaxies-could-be-right-in-the-milky-ways-backyard","title":{"rendered":"The Universe\u2019s Oldest Galaxies Could Be Right in the Milky Way\u2019s Backyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-universes-oldest-galaxies-could-be-right-in-the-milky-ways-backyard.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Universe\u2019s earliest epochs appear to be written into the small dwarf galaxies orbiting our own galactic home, the Milky Way.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers studying dark matter noticed a strange trend in the brightness of the satellite galaxies around the Milky Way. There seem to be two classes of these orbiting dwarf galaxies\u2014dim ones and bright ones\u2014with few in the middle range. The researchers propose that this kink, when viewed on a graph, could be explained by a period early on in the Universe\u2019s history called the re-ionization era.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-universes-oldest-galaxies-could-be-right-in-the-mil-1828390203\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-universes-oldest-galaxies-could-be-r...1828390203<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Universe\u2019s earliest epochs appear to be written into the small dwarf galaxies orbiting our own galactic home, the Milky Way. A team of researchers studying dark matter noticed a strange trend in the brightness of the satellite galaxies around the Milky Way. There seem to be two classes of these orbiting dwarf galaxies\u2014dim ones [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81802","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=81802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}