{"id":177680,"date":"2023-12-07T21:24:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T03:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/black-holes-really-just-ever-growing-balls-of-string-researchers-say"},"modified":"2023-12-07T21:24:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T03:24:11","slug":"black-holes-really-just-ever-growing-balls-of-string-researchers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/black-holes-really-just-ever-growing-balls-of-string-researchers-say","title":{"rendered":"Black holes really just ever-growing balls of string, researchers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/black-holes-really-just-ever-growing-balls-of-string-researchers-say2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Black holes aren\u2019t surrounded by a burning ring of fire after all, suggests new research.<\/p>\n<p>Some physicists have believed in a \u201cfirewall\u201d around the perimeter of a black hole that would incinerate anything sucked into its powerful gravitational pull.<\/p>\n<p>But a team from The Ohio State University has calculated an explanation of what would happen if an electron fell into a typical black hole, with a mass as big as the sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black holes aren\u2019t surrounded by a burning ring of fire after all, suggests new research. Some physicists have believed in a \u201cfirewall\u201d around the perimeter of a black hole that would incinerate anything sucked into its powerful gravitational pull. But a team from The Ohio State University has calculated an explanation of what would happen [\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-177680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177680","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=177680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}