{"id":165745,"date":"2023-06-14T11:22:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T16:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/a-brilliant-cosmic-burst-100-times-as-bright-as-our-galaxy-came-from-2-black-holes-circling-each-other-study-finds"},"modified":"2023-06-14T11:22:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T16:22:53","slug":"a-brilliant-cosmic-burst-100-times-as-bright-as-our-galaxy-came-from-2-black-holes-circling-each-other-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/a-brilliant-cosmic-burst-100-times-as-bright-as-our-galaxy-came-from-2-black-holes-circling-each-other-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"A brilliant cosmic burst 100 times as bright as our galaxy came from 2 black holes circling each other, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-brilliant-cosmic-burst-100-times-as-bright-as-our-galaxy-came-from-2-black-holes-circling-each-other-study-finds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The smaller black hole, with a mass of about 150 million suns, orbits its larger companion, with a mass of 18 billion suns, at near the speed of light.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s this rapid dance that sparked the bright flare from this system, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/mnras\/article\/521\/4\/6143\/7086128?searchresult=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">new study<\/a> published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society in March.<\/p>\n<p>The recorded burst, which astronomers observed in February 2022, occurred when the smaller black hole crashed into a disk of gas surrounding the larger black hole, the study\u2019s scientists said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The smaller black hole, with a mass of about 150 million suns, orbits its larger companion, with a mass of 18 billion suns, at near the speed of light. It\u2019s this rapid dance that sparked the bright flare from this system, according to a new study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165745","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=165745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}