{"id":106641,"date":"2020-05-06T08:03:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T15:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/closest-black-hole-to-earth-is-discovered-just-1000-light-years-away"},"modified":"2020-05-06T08:03:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T15:03:19","slug":"closest-black-hole-to-earth-is-discovered-just-1000-light-years-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/closest-black-hole-to-earth-is-discovered-just-1000-light-years-away","title":{"rendered":"Closest black hole to Earth is discovered just 1,000 light years away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/videos.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/mol\/2020\/04\/08\/5211242170139324599\/1024x576_MP4_5211242170139324599.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>The closest black hole to the Earth has been discovered just 1,000 light years away \u2014 near enough to see its companion stars with the naked eye on a clear night.<\/p>\n<p>Located in the constellation of Telescopium, the hole forms part of a so-called \u2018triple system \u2014 one named \u2018HR 6819\u2019 \u2014 with its two accompanying stars.<\/p>\n<p>The presence of a hidden black hole in HR 6819 was discovered by researchers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO)\u2019s La Silla Observatory in Chile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The closest black hole to the Earth has been discovered just 1,000 light years away \u2014 near enough to see its companion stars with the naked eye on a clear night. Located in the constellation of Telescopium, the hole forms part of a so-called \u2018triple system \u2014 one named \u2018HR 6819\u2019 \u2014 with its two [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106641","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}