{"id":150813,"date":"2022-11-22T16:25:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T22:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/black-hole-tiny-black-hole-called-the-unicorn-found-near-earth"},"modified":"2022-11-22T16:25:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T22:25:27","slug":"black-hole-tiny-black-hole-called-the-unicorn-found-near-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/black-hole-tiny-black-hole-called-the-unicorn-found-near-earth","title":{"rendered":"Black hole: Tiny black hole called \u2018The Unicorn\u2019 found \u2018near\u2019 Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/black-hole-tiny-black-hole-called-the-unicorn-found-near-earth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have discovered a tiny black hole relatively near to Earth. It has been dubbed \u2018<strong>The Unicorn<\/strong>\u2018and has a mass around three times that of the Sun. The smallest black holes to have previously been discovered are at least six times the mass of the Sun, so the newly found one could fall into a new category.<\/p>\n<p>But do not be fooled by its small size \u2013 it still has a gravitational pull which can consume anything around it.<\/p>\n<p>The black hole was discovered by researchers at the Ohio State University, which said it was \u201c<strong>hiding in plain sight<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have discovered a tiny black hole relatively near to Earth. It has been dubbed \u2018The Unicorn\u2018and has a mass around three times that of the Sun. The smallest black holes to have previously been discovered are at least six times the mass of the Sun, so the newly found one could fall into a [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150813","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=150813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}