{"id":160495,"date":"2023-03-17T10:17:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T15:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/2-pairs-of-gigantic-runaway-black-holes-spotted-on-collision-course-and-theyre-bringing-four-entire-galaxies-with-them"},"modified":"2023-03-17T10:17:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T15:17:58","slug":"2-pairs-of-gigantic-runaway-black-holes-spotted-on-collision-course-and-theyre-bringing-four-entire-galaxies-with-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/2-pairs-of-gigantic-runaway-black-holes-spotted-on-collision-course-and-theyre-bringing-four-entire-galaxies-with-them","title":{"rendered":"2 Pairs of Gigantic Runaway Black Holes Spotted on Collision Course, And They\u2019re Bringing Four Entire Galaxies With Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/2-pairs-of-gigantic-runaway-black-holes-spotted-on-collision-course-and-theyre-bringing-four-entire-galaxies-with-them2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two pairs of gigantic black holes, each in a different dwarf galaxy, are speeding towards each other, and they\u2019re set for two separate, never-before-seen collisions.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers used NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory to spot the four dwarf galaxy black holes racing towards each other, dragging an enormous train of gas and stars in their wake. Some of this material is already being sucked into the black holes, causing them to grow ever larger before their eventual crashes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two pairs of gigantic black holes, each in a different dwarf galaxy, are speeding towards each other, and they\u2019re set for two separate, never-before-seen collisions. Astronomers used NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory to spot the four dwarf galaxy black holes racing towards each other, dragging an enormous train of gas and stars in their wake. Some [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160495","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}