{"id":148274,"date":"2022-10-16T11:23:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T16:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/what-drives-galaxies-the-milky-ways-black-hole-may-be-the-key"},"modified":"2022-10-16T11:23:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T16:23:22","slug":"what-drives-galaxies-the-milky-ways-black-hole-may-be-the-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/what-drives-galaxies-the-milky-ways-black-hole-may-be-the-key","title":{"rendered":"What Drives Galaxies? The Milky Way\u2019s Black Hole May Be the Key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-drives-galaxies-the-milky-ways-black-hole-may-be-the-key2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On May 12, at nine simultaneous press conferences around the world, astrophysicists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/black-hole-image-reveals-sagittarius-a-20220512\/\">revealed the first image<\/a> of the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way. At first, awesome though it was, the painstakingly produced image of the ring of light around our galaxy\u2019s central pit of darkness seemed to merely prove what experts already expected: The Milky Way\u2019s supermassive black hole exists, it is spinning, and it obeys Albert Einstein\u2019s general theory of relativity.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, on closer inspection, things don\u2019t quite stack up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 12, at nine simultaneous press conferences around the world, astrophysicists revealed the first image of the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way. At first, awesome though it was, the painstakingly produced image of the ring of light around our galaxy\u2019s central pit of darkness seemed to merely prove what experts [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148274","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=148274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}