{"id":178601,"date":"2023-12-18T17:39:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T23:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/we-now-have-precise-math-to-describe-how-black-holes-reflect-our-universe"},"modified":"2023-12-18T17:39:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T23:39:16","slug":"we-now-have-precise-math-to-describe-how-black-holes-reflect-our-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/we-now-have-precise-math-to-describe-how-black-holes-reflect-our-universe","title":{"rendered":"We Now Have Precise Math To Describe How Black Holes Reflect Our Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-now-have-precise-math-to-describe-how-black-holes-reflect-our-universe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers developed a set of equations that can precisely describe the reflections of the Universe that appear in the warped light around a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">black hole<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The proximity of each reflection is dependent on the angle of observation with respect to the black hole, and the rate of the black hole\u2019s spin, according to a mathematical solution worked out by physics student Albert Sneppen of the Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark in July 2021.<\/p>\n<p>This was really cool, absolutely, but it wasn\u2019t <em>just<\/em> really cool. It also potentially gave us a new tool for probing the gravitational environment around these extreme objects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers developed a set of equations that can precisely describe the reflections of the Universe that appear in the warped light around a black hole. The proximity of each reflection is dependent on the angle of observation with respect to the black hole, and the rate of the black hole\u2019s spin, according to a mathematical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,41,2229,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-information-science","category-mathematics","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178601","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=178601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}