{"id":13953,"date":"2015-04-09T03:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13953"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:59:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:59:53","slug":"how-can-black-holes-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/how-can-black-holes-shine","title":{"rendered":"How Can Black Holes Shine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"post_author_intro\">by<\/span> <span class=\"post_author\">Fraser Cain<\/span> \u2014 Universe Today<br \/> I remember back to a classic episode of the Guide to Space, where I provided an extremely fascinating and concise explanation for what a quasar is. Don\u2019t recall that episode? Well, it was super. Just super. Alright slackers, let\u2019s recap.<\/p>\n<p>Quasars are the brightest objects in the Universe, visible across billions of light years. Likely blanching life from everything in the path of the radiation beam from its lighthouse of death. They occur when a supermassive black hole is actively feeding on material, pouring out a mountain of radiation. Black holes, of course, are regions of space with such intense gravity where nothing, not even light itself, can escape. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/119710\/how-can-black-holes-shine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Fraser Cain \u2014 Universe Today I remember back to a classic episode of the Guide to Space, where I provided an extremely fascinating and concise explanation for what a quasar is. Don\u2019t recall that episode? Well, it was super. Just super. Alright slackers, let\u2019s recap. Quasars are the brightest objects in the Universe, visible [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13953","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64769,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13953\/revisions\/64769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}