{"id":158715,"date":"2023-02-22T02:24:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T08:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/the-swan-song-of-a-cloud-approaching-the-milky-ways-supermassive-black-hole"},"modified":"2023-02-22T02:24:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T08:24:35","slug":"the-swan-song-of-a-cloud-approaching-the-milky-ways-supermassive-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/the-swan-song-of-a-cloud-approaching-the-milky-ways-supermassive-black-hole","title":{"rendered":"The swan song of a cloud approaching the Milky Way\u2019s supermassive black hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Swansong of X7\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/800871921?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers from the UCLA Galactic Center Orbits Initiative (GCOI) and Keck Observatory have been tracking the evolution of this dusty gas filament since 2002; high-angular resolution near-infrared images captured with Keck Observatory\u2019s powerful adaptive optics system show X7 has become so elongated that it now has a length of 3,000 times the distance between the Earth and sun (or 3,000 astronomical units).<\/p>\n<p>The study is published in today\u2019s issue of The Astrophysical Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers from the UCLA Galactic Center Orbits Initiative (GCOI) and Keck Observatory have been tracking the evolution of this dusty gas filament since 2002; high-angular resolution near-infrared images captured with Keck Observatory\u2019s powerful adaptive optics system show X7 has become so elongated that it now has a length of 3,000 times the distance between the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158715","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}