{"id":159303,"date":"2023-03-01T17:22:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T23:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/a-runaway-supermassive-black-hole-is-hurtling-through-the-universe-at-an-astonishing-speed"},"modified":"2023-03-01T17:22:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T23:22:18","slug":"a-runaway-supermassive-black-hole-is-hurtling-through-the-universe-at-an-astonishing-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/a-runaway-supermassive-black-hole-is-hurtling-through-the-universe-at-an-astonishing-speed","title":{"rendered":"A \u201crunaway\u201d supermassive black hole is hurtling through the universe at an astonishing speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-runaway-supermassive-black-hole-is-hurtling-through-the-universe-at-an-astonishing-speed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the last 50 years, astronomers have speculated that some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2022\/05\/10\/astronomers-see-a-big-boom-when-a-black-holes-magnetic-field-suddenly-flips-over\/\" target=\"_blank\">supermassive black holes<\/a> might \u201crun away\u201d from their home galaxies given the right conditions. Now, astronomers believe they have discovered a strong candidate for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2021\/11\/18\/gold-black-holes\/\" target=\"_blank\">supermassive black hole<\/a> that has done just that, according to new research published on the preprint server <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2302.04888\">arXiv.org<\/a>, which has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last 50 years, astronomers have speculated that some supermassive black holes might \u201crun away\u201d from their home galaxies given the right conditions. Now, astronomers believe they have discovered a strong candidate for a supermassive black hole that has done just that, according to new research published on the preprint server arXiv.org, which has [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159303","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=159303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}