{"id":406983,"date":"2017-11-22T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=fb909cca54d71c70ecfee7cb4aa99bec"},"modified":"2017-11-22T11:00:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T15:00:01","slug":"do-dark-matter-and-dark-energy-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=406983","title":{"rendered":"Do dark matter and dark energy exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have hypothesized that the universe contains &#8220;dark matter.&#8221; They have also posited the existence of  &#8220;dark energy.&#8221; These two hypotheses account for the movement of stars in galaxies and for the accelerating expansion of the universe. But according to a researcher at UNIGE, these concepts may be no longer valid, as universal phenomena can be demonstrated without them. This research exploits a new theoretical model based on the scale invariance of empty space. This research is reported in The Astrophysical Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have hypothesized that the universe contains &#8220;dark matter.&#8221; They have also posited the existence of  &#8220;dark energy.&#8221; These two hypotheses account for the movement of stars in galaxies and for the accelerating expansion of the universe. But a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406984,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406983\/revisions\/406984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}