{"id":140617,"date":"2022-06-14T21:03:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T02:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hubble-spies-stellar-ghost-wandering-the-milky-way-galaxy"},"modified":"2022-06-14T21:03:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T02:03:05","slug":"hubble-spies-stellar-ghost-wandering-the-milky-way-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hubble-spies-stellar-ghost-wandering-the-milky-way-galaxy","title":{"rendered":"Hubble spies stellar \u2018ghost\u2019 wandering the Milky Way galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hubble-spies-stellar-ghost-wandering-the-milky-way-galaxy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, the Hubble Space Telescope has detected a lone object drifting through our Milky Way galaxy \u2013 the invisible, ghostly remains of a once radiant star.<\/p>\n<p>When stars massive enough to dwarf our sun die, they explode in a supernova and the remaining core is crushed by its own gravity, forming a black hole.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, the explosion may send the black hole into motion, hurtling across the galaxy like a pinball. By rights, there should be a lot of roving black holes known to scientists, but they are practically invisible in space and therefore very difficult to uncover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, the Hubble Space Telescope has detected a lone object drifting through our Milky Way galaxy \u2013 the invisible, ghostly remains of a once radiant star. When stars massive enough to dwarf our sun die, they explode in a supernova and the remaining core is crushed by its own gravity, forming a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140617","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}