{"id":121794,"date":"2021-04-21T16:23:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T23:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/black-hole-is-closest-to-earth-among-the-smallest-ever-discovered"},"modified":"2021-04-21T16:23:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T23:23:11","slug":"black-hole-is-closest-to-earth-among-the-smallest-ever-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/black-hole-is-closest-to-earth-among-the-smallest-ever-discovered","title":{"rendered":"Black hole is closest to Earth, among the smallest ever discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/black-hole-is-closest-to-earth-among-the-smallest-ever-discovered.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered one of the smallest black holes on record\u2014and the closest one to Earth found to date.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have dubbed it \u2018The Unicorn,\u2019 in part because it is, so far, one of a kind, and in part because it was found in the constellation Monoceros\u2014\u2019The Unicorn.\u2019 The findings are publishing today, April 21, in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we looked at the data, this black hole\u2014the Unicorn\u2014just popped out,\u201d said lead author Tharindu Jayasinghe, a doctoral student in astronomy at The Ohio State University and an Ohio State presidential fellow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered one of the smallest black holes on record\u2014and the closest one to Earth found to date. Researchers have dubbed it \u2018The Unicorn,\u2019 in part because it is, so far, one of a kind, and in part because it was found in the constellation Monoceros\u2014\u2019The Unicorn.\u2019 The findings are publishing today, April 21, [\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-121794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121794","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=121794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}