{"id":142740,"date":"2022-07-24T02:30:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T07:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/nasas-hubble-space-telescope"},"modified":"2022-07-24T02:30:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T07:30:31","slug":"nasas-hubble-space-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/nasas-hubble-space-telescope","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-hubble-space-telescope.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s estimated that about 100 million black holes roam around our Milky Way Galaxy \u2014 and for the first time ever, astronomers now believe they may have precisely measured the mass of an isolated black hole with Hubble.<\/p>\n<p>Roaming black holes are born from rare, monstrous stars that are at least 20 times more massive than our Sun. After these stars explode in a supernova, the remnant core is crushed by gravity into a black hole. Because this self-detonation isn\u2019t perfectly symmetrical, the black hole might get \u201ckicked\u201d and careen through our galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers believe that the isolated black hole measured by Hubble is traveling across the Milky Way at 100,000 miles per hour (160,000 kph). That\u2019s fast enough to get from Earth to the Moon in less than three hours!<\/p>\n<p>Read more about this discovery: <a href=\"https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/3mx6t6p\">https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/3mx6t6p<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>#NASA #Hubble #BlackHole #astronomy #science #universe #astrophysics #space #stars #galaxy<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>View insights.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/nasas-hubble-space-telescope\">Continue reading \u201cNASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s estimated that about 100 million black holes roam around our Milky Way Galaxy \u2014 and for the first time ever, astronomers now believe they may have precisely measured the mass of an isolated black hole with Hubble. Roaming black holes are born from rare, monstrous stars that are at least 20 times more massive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142740","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=142740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}