{"id":181291,"date":"2024-01-24T12:29:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T18:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/faint-radio-signal-from-ancient-star-cluster-could-be-rare-missing-link-black-hole-astronomers-report"},"modified":"2024-01-24T12:29:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T18:29:15","slug":"faint-radio-signal-from-ancient-star-cluster-could-be-rare-missing-link-black-hole-astronomers-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/faint-radio-signal-from-ancient-star-cluster-could-be-rare-missing-link-black-hole-astronomers-report","title":{"rendered":"Faint radio signal from ancient star cluster could be rare \u2018missing link\u2019 black hole, astronomers report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/faint-radio-signal-from-ancient-star-cluster-could-be-rare-missing-link-black-hole-astronomers-report2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have discovered a mysterious radio signal at the heart of an ancient, tightly packed ball of stars, and it may be coming from a long-hidden black hole.<\/p>\n<p>The radio signal was picked up by the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) radio telescope as it created the most sensitive image of a globular cluster \u2014 a clump of ancient stars like these \u2014 ever taken. The ball of stars in question, named 47 Tucanae, is the second-brightest globular cluster in the sky over Earth and is located around 13,000 light-years from our planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have discovered a mysterious radio signal at the heart of an ancient, tightly packed ball of stars, and it may be coming from a long-hidden black hole. The radio signal was picked up by the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) radio telescope as it created the most sensitive image of a globular cluster \u2014 [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181291","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=181291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}