{"id":97017,"date":"2019-10-03T20:42:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T03:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/we-just-got-the-first-glimpse-of-the-mysterious-cosmic-web-that-binds-the-universe"},"modified":"2019-10-03T20:42:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T03:42:37","slug":"we-just-got-the-first-glimpse-of-the-mysterious-cosmic-web-that-binds-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/we-just-got-the-first-glimpse-of-the-mysterious-cosmic-web-that-binds-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"We Just Got The First Glimpse of The Mysterious Cosmic Web That Binds The Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a9bZ1_YtKWg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After counting all the normal, luminous matter in the obvious places of the universe \u2013 galaxies, clusters of galaxies and the intergalactic medium \u2013 about half of it is still missing. So not only is 85 percent of the matter in the universe made up of an unknown, <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-do-astronomers-believe-in-dark-matter-122864\">invisible substance dubbed \u201cdark matter\u201d<\/a>, we can\u2019t even find all the small amount of normal matter that should be there.<\/p>\n<p>This is known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Missing_baryon_problem\">\u201cmissing baryons\u201d problem<\/a>. Baryons are particles that emit or absorb light, like protons, neutrons or electrons, which make up the matter we see around us. The baryons unaccounted for are thought to be hidden in filamentary structures permeating the entire universe, also known as \u201cthe cosmic web\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But this structure is elusive and so far we have only seen glimpses of it. Now a new study, <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/cgi\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aaw5949\">published in <em>Science<\/em><\/a>, offers a better view that will enable us to help map what it looks like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After counting all the normal, luminous matter in the obvious places of the universe \u2013 galaxies, clusters of galaxies and the intergalactic medium \u2013 about half of it is still missing. So not only is 85 percent of the matter in the universe made up of an unknown, invisible substance dubbed \u201cdark matter\u201d, we can\u2019t [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97017","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}