{"id":159478,"date":"2023-03-03T19:25:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T01:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/a-black-hole-is-quickly-destroying-a-cloud-of-gas-heres-why"},"modified":"2023-03-03T19:25:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T01:25:12","slug":"a-black-hole-is-quickly-destroying-a-cloud-of-gas-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/a-black-hole-is-quickly-destroying-a-cloud-of-gas-heres-why","title":{"rendered":"A black hole is quickly destroying a cloud of gas. Here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-black-hole-is-quickly-destroying-a-cloud-of-gas-heres-why.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right now, in the center of our galaxy, an enormous black hole is stretching an object apart like it were taffy. And scientists currently have a rare view, and images, of this extreme cosmic event playing out. A thick cloud of gas and dust dubbed \u201cX7\u201d is rapidly approaching the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now, in the center of our galaxy, an enormous black hole is stretching an object apart like it were taffy. And scientists currently have a rare view, and images, of this extreme cosmic event playing out. A thick cloud of gas and dust dubbed \u201cX7\u201d is rapidly approaching the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*.<\/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-159478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159478","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=159478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}