{"id":642534,"date":"2020-01-09T09:30:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T13:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=642534"},"modified":"2020-01-09T09:30:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T13:30:42","slug":"hubble-detects-smallest-known-dark-matter-clumps-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=642534","title":{"rendered":"Hubble detects smallest known dark matter clumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When searching for dark matter, astronomers must go on a sort of &#8220;ghost hunt.&#8221; That&#8217;s because dark matter is an invisible substance that cannot be seen directly. Yet it makes up the bulk of the universe&#8217;s mass and forms the scaffolding upon which galaxies are built. Dark matter is the gravitational &#8220;glue&#8221; that holds galaxies as well as galaxy clusters together. Astronomers can detect its presence indirectly by measuring how its gravity affects stars and galaxies.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-01-hubble-smallest-dark-clumps.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Hubble detects smallest known dark matter clumps<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When searching for dark matter, astronomers must go on a sort of &#8220;ghost hunt.&#8221; That&#8217;s because dark matter is an invisible substance that cannot be seen directly. Yet it makes&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642534","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=642534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642534\/revisions"}],"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=642534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}