{"id":110111,"date":"2020-07-17T16:42:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T23:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/for-the-first-time-ever-astronomers-have-witnessed-a-black-hole-blink"},"modified":"2020-07-17T16:42:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T23:42:55","slug":"for-the-first-time-ever-astronomers-have-witnessed-a-black-hole-blink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/for-the-first-time-ever-astronomers-have-witnessed-a-black-hole-blink","title":{"rendered":"For The First Time Ever, Astronomers Have Witnessed a Black Hole \u2018Blink\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-the-first-time-ever-astronomers-have-witnessed-a-black-hole-blink2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Black holes\">Black holes<\/a> don\u2019t glow \u2014 in fact, they\u2019re famous for doing the opposite. But if they\u2019re actively devouring material from the space around them, that material can blaze like a billion X-ray Suns.<\/p>\n<p>And for the first time, astronomers have now seen that blaze mysteriously snuffed out, before gradually returning to brightness.<\/p>\n<p>The supermassive black hole is a beast clocking in at 19 million solar masses, powering a galactic nucleus 275 million light-years away, in a galaxy called 1ES 1927+654.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black holes don\u2019t glow \u2014 in fact, they\u2019re famous for doing the opposite. But if they\u2019re actively devouring material from the space around them, that material can blaze like a billion X-ray Suns. And for the first time, astronomers have now seen that blaze mysteriously snuffed out, before gradually returning to brightness. The supermassive black [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110111","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}