{"id":84942,"date":"2018-11-20T07:02:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T15:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/a-dark-matter-hurricane-is-headed-our-way"},"modified":"2018-11-20T07:02:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T15:02:45","slug":"a-dark-matter-hurricane-is-headed-our-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/a-dark-matter-hurricane-is-headed-our-way","title":{"rendered":"A dark matter hurricane is headed our way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-dark-matter-hurricane-is-headed-our-way.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a recent paper, the Earth is caught directly in the crosshairs of a cosmic hurricane. A swarm of nearly 100 stars, accompanied by an even greater amount of dark matter, is aimed directly at our stellar neighborhood and there\u2019s nothing we can do to stop it; in fact, the vanguard is already upon us. This sounds like a perfect summer blockbuster movie, starring The Rock and Chris Pratt, or maybe Scarlett Johansson and Charlize Theron.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/19\/opinions\/dark-matter-hurricane-headed-our-way-lincoln-opinion\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/19\/opinions\/dark-matter-hurrican...index.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent paper, the Earth is caught directly in the crosshairs of a cosmic hurricane. A swarm of nearly 100 stars, accompanied by an even greater amount of dark matter, is aimed directly at our stellar neighborhood and there\u2019s nothing we can do to stop it; in fact, the vanguard is already upon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84942","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}