{"id":184917,"date":"2024-03-11T12:24:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T17:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/the-indian-ocean-has-the-worlds-largest-gravity-black-hole-and-its-finally-explained"},"modified":"2024-03-11T12:24:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T17:24:56","slug":"the-indian-ocean-has-the-worlds-largest-gravity-black-hole-and-its-finally-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/the-indian-ocean-has-the-worlds-largest-gravity-black-hole-and-its-finally-explained","title":{"rendered":"The Indian Ocean Has the World\u2019s Largest Gravity \u2018Black Hole\u2019 and It\u2019s Finally Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-indian-ocean-has-the-worlds-largest-gravity-black-hole-and-its-finally-explained3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Due to the world\u2019s largest gravity hole, the sea level in a large part of the Indian Ocean is up to 106 m (348 ft) lower than the rest of the world. We have just understood what causes this huge \u2018black hole.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>If you look at a map of Earth\u2019s gravity, you will see a huge blue spot south of India, indicating a region where gravity is weaker than average. This spot is called the Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL), and it is the largest gravity anomaly on our planet.<\/p>\n<p>A gravity anomaly is a difference between the actual gravity measured at a location and the theoretical gravity expected for a perfectly smooth and spherical Earth. But Earth\u2019s gravity isn\u2019t perfectly uniform and variations in mass distribution beneath the surface cause fluctuations in gravitational pull.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the world\u2019s largest gravity hole, the sea level in a large part of the Indian Ocean is up to 106 m (348 ft) lower than the rest of the world. We have just understood what causes this huge \u2018black hole.\u2019 If you look at a map of Earth\u2019s gravity, you will see a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":716,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184917","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\/716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}