{"id":134649,"date":"2022-01-25T09:22:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T17:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/extraordinary-black-hole-unlike-any-other-discovered-in-neighboring-galaxy"},"modified":"2022-01-25T09:22:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T17:22:38","slug":"extraordinary-black-hole-unlike-any-other-discovered-in-neighboring-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/extraordinary-black-hole-unlike-any-other-discovered-in-neighboring-galaxy","title":{"rendered":"Extraordinary Black Hole \u2014 Unlike Any Other \u2014 Discovered in Neighboring Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/extraordinary-black-hole-unlike-any-other-discovered-in-neighboring-galaxy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The discovery, one of the only confirmed intermediate-mass black holes, lives in an equally rare object known as a low-mass, stripped nucleus.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers discovered a black hole unlike any other. At one hundred thousand solar masses, it is smaller than the black holes we have found at the centers of galaxies, but bigger than the black holes that are born when stars explode. This makes it one of the only confirmed intermediate-mass black holes, an object that has long been sought by astronomers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have very good detections of the biggest, stellar-mass black holes up to 100 times the size of our sun, and supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies that are millions of times the size of our sun, but there aren\u2019t any measurements of black between these. That\u2019s a large gap,\u201d said senior author Anil Seth, associate professor of astronomy at the University of Utah and co-author of the study. \u201cThis discovery fills the gap.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discovery, one of the only confirmed intermediate-mass black holes, lives in an equally rare object known as a low-mass, stripped nucleus. Astronomers discovered a black hole unlike any other. At one hundred thousand solar masses, it is smaller than the black holes we have found at the centers of galaxies, but bigger than the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134649","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}