{"id":113852,"date":"2020-10-04T16:24:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T23:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/astronomers-find-monster-black-hole-with-6-galaxies-trapped-in-its-gravitational-web"},"modified":"2020-10-04T16:24:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T23:24:10","slug":"astronomers-find-monster-black-hole-with-6-galaxies-trapped-in-its-gravitational-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/astronomers-find-monster-black-hole-with-6-galaxies-trapped-in-its-gravitational-web","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Find Monster Black Hole With 6 Galaxies Trapped in Its Gravitational Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-find-monster-black-hole-with-6-galaxies-trapped-in-its-gravitational-web.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have discovered six galaxies ensnared in the cosmic \u201cspider\u2019s web\u201d of a supermassive black hole soon after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/big-bang\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Big Bang\">Big Bang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/archives\/releases\/sciencepapers\/eso2016\/eso2016a.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to research<\/a> published Thursday that could help explain the development of these enigmatic monsters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Black holes\">Black holes<\/a> that emerged early in the history of the Universe are thought to have formed from the collapse of the first stars, but astronomers have puzzled over how they expanded into giants.<\/p>\n<p>The newly discovered black hole \u2014 which dates from when the Universe was not even a billion years old \u2014 weighs in at 1 billion times the mass of our Sun and was spotted by the European Southern Observatory (ESO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have discovered six galaxies ensnared in the cosmic \u201cspider\u2019s web\u201d of a supermassive black hole soon after the Big Bang, according to research published Thursday that could help explain the development of these enigmatic monsters. Black holes that emerged early in the history of the Universe are thought to have formed from the collapse [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113852","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\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}