{"id":89013,"date":"2019-03-28T14:44:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T21:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/unusual-galaxies-defy-dark-matter-theory"},"modified":"2019-03-28T14:44:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T21:44:16","slug":"unusual-galaxies-defy-dark-matter-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/unusual-galaxies-defy-dark-matter-theory","title":{"rendered":"Unusual galaxies defy dark matter theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unusual-galaxies-defy-dark-matter-theory.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After drawing both praise and skepticism, the team of astronomers who discovered NGC 1052-DF2 \u2013 the very first known galaxy to contain little to no dark matter \u2013 are back with stronger evidence about its bizarre nature.<\/p>\n<p>Dark matter is a mysterious, invisible substance that typically dominates the makeup of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/galaxies\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">galaxies<\/a>; finding an object that\u2019s missing <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/dark+matter\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">dark matter<\/a> is unprecedented, and came as a complete surprise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there\u2019s one object, you always have a little voice in the back of your mind saying, \u2018but what if you\u2019re wrong?\u2019 Even though we did all the checks we could think of, we were worried that nature had thrown us for a loop and had conspired to make something look really special whereas it was really something more mundane,\u201d said team leader Pieter van Dokkum, Sol Goldman Family Professor of Astronomy at Yale University.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-03-unusual-galaxies-defy-dark-theory.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019&#45;03-unusual-galaxies-defy-dark-theory.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After drawing both praise and skepticism, the team of astronomers who discovered NGC 1052-DF2 \u2013 the very first known galaxy to contain little to no dark matter \u2013 are back with stronger evidence about its bizarre nature. Dark matter is a mysterious, invisible substance that typically dominates the makeup of galaxies; finding an object that\u2019s [\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-89013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89013","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=89013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}