{"id":100684,"date":"2020-01-10T17:12:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T01:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/massive-black-hole-mystery-solved-with-a-stripped-helium-star"},"modified":"2020-01-10T17:12:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T01:12:30","slug":"massive-black-hole-mystery-solved-with-a-stripped-helium-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/massive-black-hole-mystery-solved-with-a-stripped-helium-star","title":{"rendered":"Massive Black Hole Mystery Solved With a Stripped Helium Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/massive-black-hole-mystery-solved-with-a-stripped-helium-star2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>When David Poses As Goliath<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Stellar black holes form when massive stars end their life in a dramatic collapse. Observations have shown that stellar black holes typically have masses of about ten times that of the Sun, in accordance with the theory of stellar evolution. Recently, a Chinese team of astronomers claimed to have <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/surprise-discovery-of-black-hole-in-our-galaxy-that-should-not-even-exist\/\">discovered a black hole as massive as 70 solar masses<\/a>, which, if confirmed, would severely challenge the current view of stellar evolution. The publication immediately triggered theoretical investigations as well as additional observations by other astrophysicists.<\/p>\n<p>Among those to take a closer look at the object was a team of astronomers from the Universities of Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg and Potsdam. They discovered that it may not necessarily be a black hole at all, but possibly a massive neutron star or even an \u2018ordinary\u2019 star. Their results have now been published as a highlight-paper in the renowned journal <em>Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When David Poses As Goliath Stellar black holes form when massive stars end their life in a dramatic collapse. Observations have shown that stellar black holes typically have masses of about ten times that of the Sun, in accordance with the theory of stellar evolution. Recently, a Chinese team of astronomers claimed to have discovered [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100684","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}