{"id":110115,"date":"2020-07-17T18:23:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T01:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/in-a-first-astronomers-watch-a-black-holes-corona-disappear-then-reappear"},"modified":"2020-07-17T18:23:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T01:23:51","slug":"in-a-first-astronomers-watch-a-black-holes-corona-disappear-then-reappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/in-a-first-astronomers-watch-a-black-holes-corona-disappear-then-reappear","title":{"rendered":"In a first, astronomers watch a black hole\u2019s corona disappear, then reappear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-a-first-astronomers-watch-a-black-holes-corona-disappear-then-reappear.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could be used for quasar propulsion: 3.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>It seems the universe has an odd sense of humor. While a crown-encrusted virus has run roughshod over the world, another entirely different corona about 100 million light years from Earth has mysteriously disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have watched as a supermassive black hole\u2019s own corona, the ultrabright, billion-degree ring of high-energy particles that encircles a black hole\u2019s event horizon, was abruptly destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of this dramatic transformation is unclear, though the researchers guess that the source of the calamity may have been a star caught in the black hole\u2019s gravitational pull. Like a pebble tossed into a gearbox, the star may have ricocheted through the black hole\u2019s disk of swirling material, causing everything in the vicinity, including the corona\u2019s high-energy particles, to suddenly plummet into the black hole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could be used for quasar propulsion: 3. It seems the universe has an odd sense of humor. While a crown-encrusted virus has run roughshod over the world, another entirely different corona about 100 million light years from Earth has mysteriously disappeared. For the first time, astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have watched as a supermassive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110115","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=110115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}