{"id":176382,"date":"2023-11-20T12:31:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T18:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/supermassive-black-hole-at-the-heart-of-the-milky-way-is-approaching-the-cosmic-speed-limit-dragging-space-time-along-with-it"},"modified":"2023-11-20T12:31:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T18:31:37","slug":"supermassive-black-hole-at-the-heart-of-the-milky-way-is-approaching-the-cosmic-speed-limit-dragging-space-time-along-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/supermassive-black-hole-at-the-heart-of-the-milky-way-is-approaching-the-cosmic-speed-limit-dragging-space-time-along-with-it","title":{"rendered":"Supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is approaching the cosmic speed limit, dragging space-time along with it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/supermassive-black-hole-at-the-heart-of-the-milky-way-is-approaching-the-cosmic-speed-limit-dragging-space-time-along-with-it3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy isn\u2019t just spinning \u2014 it\u2019s doing so at almost maximum speed, dragging anything near it along for the ride.<\/p>\n<p>Physicists calculated the rotational speed of the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/tag\/milky-way\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/tag\/milky-way\">Milky Way<\/a>\u2019s supermassive black hole, called Sagittarius A* (Sgr A<span style=\"font-size: 1.3em;\">\u2022<\/span>, by using NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory to view the X-rays and radio waves emanating from outflows of material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy isn\u2019t just spinning \u2014 it\u2019s doing so at almost maximum speed, dragging anything near it along for the ride. Physicists calculated the rotational speed of the Milky Way\u2019s supermassive black hole, called Sagittarius A* (Sgr A\u2022, by using NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory to view the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176382","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=176382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}