{"id":164871,"date":"2023-05-31T15:23:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T20:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/black-holes-might-really-be-giant-structures-made-of-spacetime-physicists-propose"},"modified":"2023-05-31T15:23:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T20:23:28","slug":"black-holes-might-really-be-giant-structures-made-of-spacetime-physicists-propose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/black-holes-might-really-be-giant-structures-made-of-spacetime-physicists-propose","title":{"rendered":"Black Holes Might Really Be Giant Structures Made of Spacetime, Physicists Propose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/black-holes-might-really-be-giant-structures-made-of-spacetime-physicists-propose2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an interesting question to ask: Are there things other than a black hole\u201d that \u201cwill give you a hint about what new physics could look like?\u201d added Bah. \u201cBut before you get there, you need to know how to tell whether you have a black hole or not, and to do that you have some prototype examples of things that are not black holes to be able to compare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Black holes are among the most fascinating and puzzling objects ever observed in our universe. These massive compact entities have so much gravitational power that nothing, not even light, can escape beyond their borders, known as the event horizon. Scientists have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/3aqjeb\/how-an-earth-sized-telescope-images-supermassive-black-holes\"> imaged black holes<\/a> with the Event Horizon Telescope and have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/dyv4bx\/what-scientists-have-learned-from-hidden-ripples-in-spacetime\"> captured the ripples<\/a> that these objects make in spacetime, which are called gravitational waves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an interesting question to ask: Are there things other than a black hole\u201d that \u201cwill give you a hint about what new physics could look like?\u201d added Bah. \u201cBut before you get there, you need to know how to tell whether you have a black hole or not, and to do that you have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164871","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=164871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}