{"id":165099,"date":"2023-06-04T02:23:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T07:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/scientists-stunned"},"modified":"2023-06-04T02:23:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T07:23:21","slug":"scientists-stunned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/scientists-stunned","title":{"rendered":"Scientists \u2018stunned\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-stunned2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of astrophysicists has discovered hundreds of mysterious structures in the centre of the Milky Way.<\/p>\n<p>The one-dimensional cosmic threads are made up of hundreds of horizontal or radial filaments, slender, elongated bodies of luminous gas that potentially originated a few million years ago \u2014 and seem to be pointing the direction of the black hole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was actually stunned when I saw these. We had to do a lot of work to establish that we weren\u2019t fooling ourselves,\u201d added Yusef-Zadeh, who\u2019s also a member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of astrophysicists has discovered hundreds of mysterious structures in the centre of the Milky Way. The one-dimensional cosmic threads are made up of hundreds of horizontal or radial filaments, slender, elongated bodies of luminous gas that potentially originated a few million years ago \u2014 and seem to be pointing the direction of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165099","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}