{"id":167596,"date":"2023-07-15T12:23:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T17:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/shining-light-on-cosmic-secrets-scientists-test-a-controversial-theory-of-blazar-emissions"},"modified":"2023-07-15T12:23:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T17:23:39","slug":"shining-light-on-cosmic-secrets-scientists-test-a-controversial-theory-of-blazar-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/shining-light-on-cosmic-secrets-scientists-test-a-controversial-theory-of-blazar-emissions","title":{"rendered":"Shining Light on Cosmic Secrets: Scientists Test a Controversial Theory of Blazar Emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/shining-light-on-cosmic-secrets-scientists-test-a-controversial-theory-of-blazar-emissions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/penn-state-university\/>Penn State<\/a> researchers have recently characterized over a hundred blazars \u2013 far-off, dynamic galaxies hosting a central supermassive black hole.<\/p>\n<p>A black hole is a place in space where the gravitational field is so strong that not even light can escape it. Astronomers classify black holes into three categories by size: miniature, stellar, and supermassive black holes. Miniature black holes could have a mass smaller than our Sun and supermassive black holes could have a mass equivalent to billions of our Sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penn State researchers have recently characterized over a hundred blazars \u2013 far-off, dynamic galaxies hosting a central supermassive black hole. A black hole is a place in space where the gravitational field is so strong that not even light can escape it. Astronomers classify black holes into three categories by size: miniature, stellar, and supermassive [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167596","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=167596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}