{"id":118158,"date":"2021-01-07T21:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T05:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/after-decades-of-effort-scientists-are-finally-seeing-black-holes-or-are-they"},"modified":"2021-01-07T21:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T05:22:18","slug":"after-decades-of-effort-scientists-are-finally-seeing-black-holes-or-are-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/after-decades-of-effort-scientists-are-finally-seeing-black-holes-or-are-they","title":{"rendered":"After decades of effort, scientists are finally seeing black holes\u2014or are they?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/after-decades-of-effort-scientists-are-finally-seeing-black-holes-or-are-they3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists hope to answer three specific questions: Do the observed black holes really have event horizons? Are they as featureless as the no-hair theorem says? And do they distort spacetime exactly as the Kerr metric predicts?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>How do you prove that you\u2019re observing a bizarre, featureless hole in the fabric of space and time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists hope to answer three specific questions: Do the observed black holes really have event horizons? Are they as featureless as the no-hair theorem says? And do they distort spacetime exactly as the Kerr metric predicts? How do you prove that you\u2019re observing a bizarre, featureless hole in the fabric of space and time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118158","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}