{"id":113409,"date":"2020-09-25T10:23:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T17:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/the-giant-black-hole-we-imaged-for-the-first-time-now-appears-to-be-glittering"},"modified":"2020-09-25T10:23:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T17:23:44","slug":"the-giant-black-hole-we-imaged-for-the-first-time-now-appears-to-be-glittering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/the-giant-black-hole-we-imaged-for-the-first-time-now-appears-to-be-glittering","title":{"rendered":"The Giant Black Hole We Imaged For The First Time Now Appears to Be\u2026 Glittering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v_Bk2997YMA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last year, for the first time, the world gazed in collective wonder at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/it-s-official-global-collaboration-of-astronomers-have-taken-the-first-ever-black-hole-photo\">an actual direct image of a black hole\u2019s shadow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, looking back at earlier, more rudimentary images, scientists have found evidence that the ring around M87 has a wobble that makes it look as though it\u2019s glittering.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s history-making image was a feat of hard work that pushed our observation technology to the limits. It was the culmination of years of effort and planning \u2014 but the final image was put together from only one week\u2019s worth of observations, taken in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, for the first time, the world gazed in collective wonder at an actual direct image of a black hole\u2019s shadow. Now, looking back at earlier, more rudimentary images, scientists have found evidence that the ring around M87 has a wobble that makes it look as though it\u2019s glittering. Last year\u2019s history-making image was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113409","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}