{"id":134419,"date":"2022-01-20T17:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T01:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/new-study-reveals-the-gentler-side-of-black-holes"},"modified":"2022-01-20T17:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T01:22:17","slug":"new-study-reveals-the-gentler-side-of-black-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/new-study-reveals-the-gentler-side-of-black-holes","title":{"rendered":"New study reveals the gentler side of black holes"},"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\/YJbxIdZ-3fg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This tiny galaxy has a huge black hole at its center that\u2019s churning out stars.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists observed a black hole birthing new stars in a dwarf galaxy for the first time, providing evidence as to how these all-consuming objects can create <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/how-baby-stars-get-their-food\">stellar nurseries<\/a>. The observations also reveal how ancient black holes may have formed shortly after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/big-bang-theories\">Big Bang<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are detailed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-021-04215-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">study<\/a> published Wednesday in the journal <em>Nature.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>HERE\u2019S THE BACKGROUND \u2014 Black holes are compact, dense concentrations of matter in space, a region with such a strong gravitational pull that not even light can escape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tiny galaxy has a huge black hole at its center that\u2019s churning out stars. Scientists observed a black hole birthing new stars in a dwarf galaxy for the first time, providing evidence as to how these all-consuming objects can create stellar nurseries. The observations also reveal how ancient black holes may have formed shortly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134419","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\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}