{"id":87831,"date":"2019-02-17T06:43:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T14:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/one-would-think-one-third-of-the-universes-matter-would-be-easy-to-find"},"modified":"2019-02-17T06:43:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T14:43:48","slug":"one-would-think-one-third-of-the-universes-matter-would-be-easy-to-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/one-would-think-one-third-of-the-universes-matter-would-be-easy-to-find","title":{"rendered":"One would think one third of the universe\u2019s matter would be easy to find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/one-would-think-one-third-of-the-universes-matter-would-be-easy-to-find2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, when astronomers add up all the mass of normal matter in the universe, a third of it can\u2019t be found. (This missing matter is distinct from the still-mysterious dark matter.) However, the matter might be contained in gigantic strands of hot gas in intergalactic space, which are invisible to optical light telescopes. Data from <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/chandraxrayobservatory\/?fref=mentions&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCJZa-2cQHC38yXB9qTbHW2KNY1_gjNiSNME7ATudQ9yorLP8fqasdHbqIDSDiTGRq9G1Ad0VBHWCEP7hfhL0j5AjhH594NcAPuFB6dYcjkgTqYd5r1UPCbFassiZ75kzCMQIORmjwUXuadbgZ2fu7QXf1JZ3Oi8CYdLddhk2YPKEJ-qXpRiB5PJM3lfo3C6OVCMqMURbESfi3ArFjooyy0Jt-S7jHFRt4yqmSVinssUTHiKdGO4oSCrDTCjROXUOJXF-UsAihgHBwC1vL5hdiz8shyqCbfGuFb2eiccCWH2DTKjFI7DEjIgs49yvaqEYCo7txd2ZE-oEHvNw&__tn__=K-R\">Chandra X-ray Observatory<\/a> and other telescopes are on the case: <a href=\"https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2N7nWj6\" target=\"_blank\" data-ft=\"{\u201d tn\u201d:\u201d-U\u201d}\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-lynx-mode=\"async\"><a href=\"https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2N7nWj6\">https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2N7nWj6<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NASA\/photos\/a.67899501771\/10156927315571772\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NASA\/photos\/a.67899501771\/10156927315571772<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However, when astronomers add up all the mass of normal matter in the universe, a third of it can\u2019t be found. (This missing matter is distinct from the still-mysterious dark matter.) However, the matter might be contained in gigantic strands of hot gas in intergalactic space, which are invisible to optical light telescopes. Data from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87831","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=87831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}