{"id":120867,"date":"2021-03-24T23:22:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T06:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/piercing-through-a-galaxys-dusty-core-to-uncover-the-secrets-of-an-active-supermassive-black-hole"},"modified":"2021-03-24T23:22:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T06:22:57","slug":"piercing-through-a-galaxys-dusty-core-to-uncover-the-secrets-of-an-active-supermassive-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/piercing-through-a-galaxys-dusty-core-to-uncover-the-secrets-of-an-active-supermassive-black-hole","title":{"rendered":"Piercing Through a Galaxy\u2019s Dusty Core to Uncover the Secrets of an Active Supermassive Black Hole"},"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\/y_LsiTTWo6U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Researchers using NASA\u2019s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope will map and model the core of nearby galaxy Centaurus A.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>As technology has improved over the centuries, so have astronomers\u2019 observations of nearby galaxy Centaurus A. They have peeled back its layers like an onion to discover that its wobbly shape is the result of two galaxies that merged more than 100 million years ago. It also has an active supermassive black hole, known as an active galactic nucleus, at its heart that periodically sends out twin jets. Despite these advancements, Centaurus A\u2019s dusty core is still quite mysterious. Webb\u2019s high-resolution infrared data will allow a research team to very precisely reveal all that lies at the center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers using NASA\u2019s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope will map and model the core of nearby galaxy Centaurus A. As technology has improved over the centuries, so have astronomers\u2019 observations of nearby galaxy Centaurus A. They have peeled back its layers like an onion to discover that its wobbly shape is the result of two [\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-120867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120867","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=120867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}