{"id":173253,"date":"2023-10-01T15:23:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T20:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/scientists-just-proved-that-monster-black-hole-m87-is-spinning-confirming-einsteins-relativity-yet-again"},"modified":"2023-10-01T15:23:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T20:23:08","slug":"scientists-just-proved-that-monster-black-hole-m87-is-spinning-confirming-einsteins-relativity-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/scientists-just-proved-that-monster-black-hole-m87-is-spinning-confirming-einsteins-relativity-yet-again","title":{"rendered":"Scientists just proved that \u2018monster\u2019 black hole M87 is spinning \u2014 confirming Einstein\u2019s relativity yet again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-proved-that-monster-black-hole-m87-is-spinning-confirming-einsteins-relativity-yet-again.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have found the first direct evidence of a black hole spinning, and it\u2019s confirmed Einstein\u2019s theory of relativity yet again.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery was made by studying powerful jets of energy beamed from the solar system-size black hole at the center of the neighboring Messier 87 galaxy. The black hole, called M87, is the best studied black hole to date and the first to ever be directly imaged in 2019, with its \u201cdonut hole\u201d shadow crowned by a fuzzy halo of light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have found the first direct evidence of a black hole spinning, and it\u2019s confirmed Einstein\u2019s theory of relativity yet again. The discovery was made by studying powerful jets of energy beamed from the solar system-size black hole at the center of the neighboring Messier 87 galaxy. The black hole, called M87, is the best [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173253","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}