{"id":796223,"date":"2025-05-19T09:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T14:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=796223"},"modified":"2025-05-19T09:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T14:35:08","slug":"strange-sticky-dark-matter-could-be-lurking-in-a-distant-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=796223","title":{"rendered":"Strange &#8216;sticky&#8217; dark matter could be lurking in a distant galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Galaxy SDSS J0946+1006 acts as a gravitational lens, helping astronomers see the signs of dark matter<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">NASA\/ESA\/R. Gavazzi, T. Treu\/University of California\/SLACS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>An unusually dense galaxy could be the first clear evidence for the existence of an unconventional form of \u201csticky\u201d dark matter, altering our understanding of this mysterious cosmic substance.<\/p>\n<p>In the standard picture of cosmology, so-called cold dark matter only interacts with the rest of the universe through gravity, which causes it to bunch together in invisible, puffy clouds around galaxies. We can map these clouds indirectly by measuring the gravitational pull they exert, which bends\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2480602-strange-sticky-dark-matter-could-be-lurking-in-a-distant-galaxy\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galaxy SDSS J0946+1006 acts as a gravitational lens, helping astronomers see the signs of dark matter NASA\/ESA\/R. Gavazzi, T. Treu\/University of California\/SLACS An unusually dense galaxy could be the first&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":796224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796223","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=796223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/796224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}