{"id":121121,"date":"2021-04-01T05:25:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T12:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/a-gamma-ray-burst-just-revealed-a-goldilocks-black-hole-in-the-early-universe"},"modified":"2021-04-01T05:25:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T12:25:40","slug":"a-gamma-ray-burst-just-revealed-a-goldilocks-black-hole-in-the-early-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/a-gamma-ray-burst-just-revealed-a-goldilocks-black-hole-in-the-early-universe","title":{"rendered":"A Gamma-Ray Burst Just Revealed a \u2018Goldilocks\u2019 Black Hole in The Early Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-gamma-ray-burst-just-revealed-a-goldilocks-black-hole-in-the-early-universe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have reported the discovery of a rare, medium-sized black hole that may help answer one of the more tantalizing questions in astronomy: how do their supermassive counterparts come into being?<\/p>\n<p>There are two well-known sizes of black hole \u2014 at one end, so-called stellar-class ones which are typically three to ten times the mass of our Sun \u2014 and at the other, supermassive ones, found at the center of most galaxies, including the Milky Way, which are millions to billions times heavier.<\/p>\n<p>The newly detected \u2018goldilocks\u2019 black hole \u2014 about 55000 solar masses \u2014 could be a missing link between these two extremes, scientists suggested Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41550-021-01307-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in the journal <em>Nature Astronomy<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have reported the discovery of a rare, medium-sized black hole that may help answer one of the more tantalizing questions in astronomy: how do their supermassive counterparts come into being? There are two well-known sizes of black hole \u2014 at one end, so-called stellar-class ones which are typically three to ten times the mass [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121121","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}