{"id":3927501,"date":"2026-08-15T12:06:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T17:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/early-universe-plasma-may-have-stopped-dark-photons-from-heating-cosmos\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T12:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T17:06:20","slug":"early-universe-plasma-may-have-stopped-dark-photons-from-heating-cosmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/early-universe-plasma-may-have-stopped-dark-photons-from-heating-cosmos\/","title":{"rendered":"Early-universe plasma may have stopped dark photons from heating cosmos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A new paper published in Physical Review Letters reveals that a leading dark matter candidate\u2014the hypothetical &#8220;dark photon&#8221;\u2014would not have heated the early universe as previously thought. The finding opens a vast region for experimental searches and could change the hunt for dark matter.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-08-early-universe-plasma-dark-photons.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new paper published in Physical Review Letters reveals that a leading dark matter candidate\u2014the hypothetical &#8220;dark photon&#8221;\u2014would not have heated the early universe as previously thought. The finding opens a vast region for experimental searches and could change the hunt for dark matter. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}