{"id":146854,"date":"2022-09-23T07:22:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T12:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/scientists-discover-the-nearest-black-hole-to-our-solar-system-ever-found"},"modified":"2022-09-23T07:22:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T12:22:58","slug":"scientists-discover-the-nearest-black-hole-to-our-solar-system-ever-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/scientists-discover-the-nearest-black-hole-to-our-solar-system-ever-found","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover the Nearest Black Hole to Our Solar System Ever Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-the-nearest-black-hole-to-our-solar-system-ever-found.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have recently found the nearest known <a href=\"https:\/\/outsider.com\/outdoors\/viral\/nasa-releases-black-hole-audio-clip-its-absolutely-horrifying\/\">black hole<\/a> to our solar system. According to scientists, the black hole is 1,570 lightyears away and ten times larger than our sun.<\/p>\n<p>Known as Gaia BH1, the research was led by Harvard Society Fellow astrophysicist Kareem El-Badry, with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA).<\/p>\n<p>In addition, El-Badry worked with researchers from CfA, MPIA, Caltech, UC Berkeley, the Flatiron Institute\u2019s Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA), the Weizmann Institute of Science, the Observatoire de Paris, MIT\u2019s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, and other universities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have recently found the nearest known black hole to our solar system. According to scientists, the black hole is 1,570 lightyears away and ten times larger than our sun. Known as Gaia BH1, the research was led by Harvard Society Fellow astrophysicist Kareem El-Badry, with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and the Max [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146854","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}