{"id":159896,"date":"2023-03-09T09:24:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T15:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/astronomers-just-discovered-an-exotic-black-hole-deemed-a-needle-in-a-haystack"},"modified":"2023-03-09T09:24:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T15:24:32","slug":"astronomers-just-discovered-an-exotic-black-hole-deemed-a-needle-in-a-haystack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/astronomers-just-discovered-an-exotic-black-hole-deemed-a-needle-in-a-haystack","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Just Discovered An Exotic Black Hole Deemed A \u2018Needle In A Haystack\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-just-discovered-an-exotic-black-hole-deemed-a-needle-in-a-haystack.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have found what they are calling a \u201ccosmic needle in a haystack\u201d in a galaxy next to our Milky Way. It is a dormant black hole that seems to have formed without the explosion of a dead star.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers said on Monday that this black hole is different from all the others that we know of because it is \u201cX-ray quiet.\u201d This means that it doesn\u2019t make a lot of X-ray radiation, which would indicate that it is eating nearby matter with its huge gravitational pull, and that it didn\u2019t form in a supernova.<\/p>\n<p>Black holes are very dense things with so much gravity that not even light can get out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have found what they are calling a \u201ccosmic needle in a haystack\u201d in a galaxy next to our Milky Way. It is a dormant black hole that seems to have formed without the explosion of a dead star. Researchers said on Monday that this black hole is different from all the others that we [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159896","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}