{"id":136370,"date":"2022-03-03T05:54:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T13:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/these-two-black-hole-behemoths-will-merge-in-10000-years"},"modified":"2022-03-03T05:54:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T13:54:55","slug":"these-two-black-hole-behemoths-will-merge-in-10000-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/these-two-black-hole-behemoths-will-merge-in-10000-years","title":{"rendered":"These Two Black Hole Behemoths Will Merge in 10,000 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-two-black-hole-behemoths-will-merge-in-10000-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have discovered a pair of supermassive black holes that whirl around each other every two years.<\/p>\n<p>A team of astronomers has caught two supermassive black holes in the process of merging. It\u2019s only the second time we\u2019ve observed such a close cosmic tango and this pair are even more tightly entwined than the first duo, offering unique insights into how such mergers unfold.<\/p>\n<p>The black holes in question sit some 9 billion light-years away in the heart of a distant galaxy. As one of them gorges on surrounding material, it creates a radio jet that just so happens to be pointing directly at Earth. Such objects, which we call <em>blazars<\/em>, are volatile, typically flaring and dimming randomly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have discovered a pair of supermassive black holes that whirl around each other every two years. A team of astronomers has caught two supermassive black holes in the process of merging. It\u2019s only the second time we\u2019ve observed such a close cosmic tango and this pair are even more tightly entwined than the first [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136370","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=136370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}