{"id":154781,"date":"2023-01-07T12:23:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T18:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/could-humans-use-black-holes-to-time-travel"},"modified":"2023-01-07T12:23:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T18:23:15","slug":"could-humans-use-black-holes-to-time-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/could-humans-use-black-holes-to-time-travel","title":{"rendered":"Could humans use black holes to time travel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-humans-use-black-holes-to-time-travel2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Black holes form natural time machines that allow travel to both the past and the future. But don\u2019t expect to be heading back to visit the dinosaurs any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>At present, we don\u2019t have spacecraft that could get us anywhere near a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/black-holes.html\">black hole<\/a>. But, even leaving that small detail aside, attempting to travel into the past using a black hole might be the last thing you ever do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black holes form natural time machines that allow travel to both the past and the future. But don\u2019t expect to be heading back to visit the dinosaurs any time soon. At present, we don\u2019t have spacecraft that could get us anywhere near a black hole. But, even leaving that small detail aside, attempting to travel [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1514,1515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-space-travel","category-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154781","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}