{"id":136857,"date":"2022-03-14T16:02:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T23:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/tiny-galaxies-reveal-secrets-of-supermassive-black-holes"},"modified":"2022-03-14T16:02:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T23:02:58","slug":"tiny-galaxies-reveal-secrets-of-supermassive-black-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/tiny-galaxies-reveal-secrets-of-supermassive-black-holes","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Galaxies Reveal Secrets of Supermassive Black Holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-galaxies-reveal-secrets-of-supermassive-black-holes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople keep finding more of them,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty-directory.dartmouth.edu\/ryan-hickox\">Ryan Hickox<\/a>, an astronomer at Dartmouth College who recently helped locate one himself. \u201cThere may be a lot more of these things in these galaxies than we could find using the traditional techniques.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Off the Map<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Dwarf galaxies are relatively uncharted astronomical territory. Ten to 100 times lighter than the Milky Way, they lack the gravitational moxie to pull themselves into the tidy round shapes amenable to theorizing. They\u2019re also patchy, dim and generally hard to study in detail. \u201cThey\u2019re a total mess,\u201d Volonteri said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPeople keep finding more of them,\u201d said Ryan Hickox, an astronomer at Dartmouth College who recently helped locate one himself. \u201cThere may be a lot more of these things in these galaxies than we could find using the traditional techniques.\u201d Off the Map Dwarf galaxies are relatively uncharted astronomical territory. Ten to 100 times lighter [\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-136857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136857","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=136857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}