{"id":131813,"date":"2021-12-05T07:23:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T15:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/scientists-discover-enormous-black-hole-right-near-our-galaxy"},"modified":"2021-12-05T07:23:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T15:23:44","slug":"scientists-discover-enormous-black-hole-right-near-our-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/scientists-discover-enormous-black-hole-right-near-our-galaxy","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover Enormous Black Hole Right Near Our Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-enormous-black-hole-right-near-our-galaxy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers from the University of Texas <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/strangely-massive-black-hole-discovered-in-milky-way-satellite-galaxy\/\" class=\"\">have spotted<\/a> a gigantic black hole at the heart of our galaxy\u2019s many dwarf satellite galaxies \u2014 meaning that, in intergalactic terms, it\u2019s just a stone\u2019s throw away from our own Solar System.<\/p>\n<p>The newly discovered black hole, dubbed Leo I, is roughly the same size as the suspected black hole at the center of the Milky Way.<\/p>\n<p>It also appears to be a bit of an oddball. By measuring the gravitational pull it has on the stars surrounding it, the researchers found that it\u2019s absolutely massive compared to the size of its host galaxy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers from the University of Texas have spotted a gigantic black hole at the heart of our galaxy\u2019s many dwarf satellite galaxies \u2014 meaning that, in intergalactic terms, it\u2019s just a stone\u2019s throw away from our own Solar System. The newly discovered black hole, dubbed Leo I, is roughly the same size as the suspected [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131813","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}