{"id":158742,"date":"2023-02-22T12:25:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T18:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/first-evidence-that-black-holes-are-the-source-of-dark-energy"},"modified":"2023-02-22T12:25:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T18:25:13","slug":"first-evidence-that-black-holes-are-the-source-of-dark-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/first-evidence-that-black-holes-are-the-source-of-dark-energy","title":{"rendered":"First Evidence that Black Holes are the Source of Dark Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gjwxnoPoEHQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude17<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ralspace.stfc.ac.uk\/Pages\/first-evidence-black-holes-source-of-dark-energy.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Observations of supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies point to a likely source of dark energy \u2013 the \u2018missing\u2019 70% of the Universe.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The measurements from ancient and dormant galaxies show black holes growing more than expected, aligning with a phenomenon predicted in Einstein\u2019s theory of gravity. The result potentially means nothing new has to be added to our picture of the Universe to account for dark energy: black holes combined with Einstein\u2019s gravity are the source.<\/p>\n<p>Study co-author Dr Chris Pearson, from STFC RAL Space, said: \u201cIf the theory holds, then this is going to revolutionize the whole of cosmology, because at last we\u2019ve got a solution for the origin of dark energy that\u2019s been perplexing cosmologists and theoretical physicists for more than 20 years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\ude17 Observations of supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies point to a likely source of dark energy \u2013 the \u2018missing\u2019 70% of the Universe. The measurements from ancient and dormant galaxies show black holes growing more than expected, aligning with a phenomenon predicted in Einstein\u2019s theory of gravity. The result potentially means nothing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158742","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}