{"id":115446,"date":"2020-11-04T15:22:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T23:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/physicists-fake-black-holes-could-be-pulling-the-universe-apart"},"modified":"2020-11-04T15:22:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T23:22:17","slug":"physicists-fake-black-holes-could-be-pulling-the-universe-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/physicists-fake-black-holes-could-be-pulling-the-universe-apart","title":{"rendered":"Physicists: Fake Black Holes Could Be Pulling the Universe Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-fake-black-holes-could-be-pulling-the-universe-apart.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O,.o wut?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b>Cosmic Loners<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The problem with the GEODE hypothesis is that the strange objects need to resemble but not act like black holes. The only way that GEODEs could expand the universe without destroying everything around them is if they were isolated in empty pockets of the cosmos. But black holes often sit smack dab in the middle of galaxies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis becomes a problem if you want to explain the accelerating expansion of the universe,\u201d lead author Kevin Croker <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-09-candidate-mysterious-dark-energy.html\">said in a press release<\/a>. \u201cIf they moved like black holes, staying close to visible matter, galaxies like our own Milky Way would have been disrupted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O,.o wut? Cosmic Loners The problem with the GEODE hypothesis is that the strange objects need to resemble but not act like black holes. The only way that GEODEs could expand the universe without destroying everything around them is if they were isolated in empty pockets of the cosmos. But black holes often sit smack [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115446","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=115446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}