{"id":176882,"date":"2023-11-27T13:22:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T19:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/paradox-of-ultramassive-black-hole-formation-solved-by-supercomputer"},"modified":"2023-11-27T13:22:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T19:22:27","slug":"paradox-of-ultramassive-black-hole-formation-solved-by-supercomputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/paradox-of-ultramassive-black-hole-formation-solved-by-supercomputer","title":{"rendered":"Paradox of ultramassive black hole formation solved by supercomputer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/paradox-of-ultramassive-black-hole-formation-solved-by-supercomputer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With a gravitational field so strong that not even light can escape its grip, black holes are probably the most interesting and bizarre objects in the universe.<\/p>\n<p>Due to their extreme properties, a theoretical description of these celestial bodies is impossible within the framework of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astronomy.com\/science\/isaac-newton-a-vindictive-secretive-paranoid-genius\/\">Newton\u2019s<\/a> classical theory of gravity. It requires the use of <a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.com\/magazine\/news\/2018\/09\/black-holes-test-the-limits-of-einsteins-relativity\">general relativity<\/a>, the theory proposed by Einstein in 1915, which treats gravitational fields as deformations in <a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.com\/bonus\/gravity\">the fabric of space-time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astronomy.com\/science\/how-do-black-holes-form\/\">Black holes are usually formed<\/a> from the collapse of massive stars during their final stage of evolution. Therefore, when a black hole is born, its mass does not exceed a few dozen solar masses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a gravitational field so strong that not even light can escape its grip, black holes are probably the most interesting and bizarre objects in the universe. Due to their extreme properties, a theoretical description of these celestial bodies is impossible within the framework of Newton\u2019s classical theory of gravity. It requires the use of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":705,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,385,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-evolution","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176882","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\/705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}