{"id":121870,"date":"2021-04-23T20:22:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T03:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/the-unicorn-closest-black-hole-to-earth-ever-discovered"},"modified":"2021-04-23T20:22:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T03:22:39","slug":"the-unicorn-closest-black-hole-to-earth-ever-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/the-unicorn-closest-black-hole-to-earth-ever-discovered","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Unicorn\u201d \u2013 Closest Black Hole to Earth Ever Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-unicorn-closest-black-hole-to-earth-ever-discovered2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered one of the smallest black holes on record \u2013 and the closest one to Earth found to date.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have dubbed it \u201cThe Unicorn,\u201d in part because it is, so far, one of a kind, and in part because it was found in the constellation Monoceros \u2013 \u201cThe Unicorn.\u201d The findings were published on April 21, 2021, in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we looked at the data, this black hole \u2013 the Unicorn \u2013 just 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 \u2013 and the closest one to Earth found to date. Researchers have dubbed it \u201cThe Unicorn,\u201d in part because it is, so far, one of a kind, and in part because it was found in the constellation Monoceros \u2013 \u201cThe Unicorn.\u201d The findings were [\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-121870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121870","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=121870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}