{"id":166316,"date":"2023-06-24T10:24:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T15:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/nearest-supermassive-black-hole-awakens-from-dormancy-becomes-a-million-times-brighter-scientists"},"modified":"2023-06-24T10:24:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T15:24:38","slug":"nearest-supermassive-black-hole-awakens-from-dormancy-becomes-a-million-times-brighter-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/nearest-supermassive-black-hole-awakens-from-dormancy-becomes-a-million-times-brighter-scientists","title":{"rendered":"Nearest supermassive black hole awakens from dormancy, becomes a million times brighter: Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nearest-supermassive-black-hole-awakens-from-dormancy-becomes-a-million-times-brighter-scientists2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a remarkable revelation, scientists have observed that our closest supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, has emerged from a prolonged state of dormancy and intensified its luminosity by a factor of a million.<\/p>\n<p>Situated at the core of the Milky Way, this black hole is approximately four million times more massive than the Sun. Previously considered quiescent, it suddenly displayed heightened activity around 200 years ago, devouring cosmic objects that ventured too close, reported the Independent.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting surge in brightness occurred rapidly, analogous to a hidden glow-worm in a forest instantly radiating sunlight, according to researchers. While the precise cause of this awakening remains unknown, scientists are dedicated to studying the black hole\u2019s behaviour in order to unravel the factors that trigger such transitions from quiescence to activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a remarkable revelation, scientists have observed that our closest supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, has emerged from a prolonged state of dormancy and intensified its luminosity by a factor of a million. Situated at the core of the Milky Way, this black hole is approximately four million times more massive than the Sun. Previously [\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-166316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166316","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=166316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}