{"id":90802,"date":"2019-05-16T18:02:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T01:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/a-dense-bullet-of-something-blasted-holes-in-the-milky-way"},"modified":"2019-05-16T18:02:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T01:02:41","slug":"a-dense-bullet-of-something-blasted-holes-in-the-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/a-dense-bullet-of-something-blasted-holes-in-the-milky-way","title":{"rendered":"A \u201cDense Bullet of Something\u201d Blasted Holes in the Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-dense-bullet-of-something-blasted-holes-in-the-milky-way2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O.o\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists say that something mysterious punched gigantic, cosmic \u201cbullet holes\u201d in parts of the Milky Way.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a string of holes in a long stream of stars called GD-1 that suggests that some <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/oxford-scientist-may-have-solved-mystery-dark-matter\">yet-undiscovered thing<\/a> blasted its way through, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/65483-dark-impactor-could-be-dark-matter.html\">according to research<\/a> presented to the American Physical Society last month and first reported by <em>Live Science<\/em>. Harvard-Smithsonian astrophysicist Ana Bonaca, the scientist who discovered the cosmic crime scene, suspects that the gigantic \u201cbullet holes\u201d may have been carved out by <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/stars-galaxies-dark-matter\">invisible dark matter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Whodunnit<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the culprit of this celestial shooting seems to have gotten away with it \u2014 Bonaca told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/65483-dark-impactor-could-be-dark-matter.html\">Live Science<\/a><\/em> that there\u2019s no evidence at the crime scene beyond the size of the gaps in the stellar stream.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/bullet-holes-milky-way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O.o\u2026 Scientists say that something mysterious punched gigantic, cosmic \u201cbullet holes\u201d in parts of the Milky Way. There\u2019s a string of holes in a long stream of stars called GD-1 that suggests that some yet-undiscovered thing blasted its way through, according to research presented to the American Physical Society last month and first reported by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90802","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}