{"id":186149,"date":"2024-03-27T20:25:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T01:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/new-view-of-the-supermassive-black-hole-at-the-heart-of-the-milky-way-hints-at-an-exciting-hidden-feature-image"},"modified":"2024-03-27T20:25:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T01:25:03","slug":"new-view-of-the-supermassive-black-hole-at-the-heart-of-the-milky-way-hints-at-an-exciting-hidden-feature-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/new-view-of-the-supermassive-black-hole-at-the-heart-of-the-milky-way-hints-at-an-exciting-hidden-feature-image","title":{"rendered":"New view of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way hints at an exciting hidden feature (image)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-view-of-the-supermassive-black-hole-at-the-heart-of-the-milky-way-hints-at-an-exciting-hidden-feature-image3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The results suggest a deeper investigation of Sgr A* may uncover hitherto undiscovered features.<\/p>\n<p>The polarization of light and neat and strong magnetic fields of Sgr A*, and the fact that they closely resemble that of M87*, may indicate that our central black hole has been hiding a secret from us until now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect strong and ordered magnetic fields to be directly linked to the launching of jets as we observed for M87*,\u201d Issaoun explained. \u201cSince Sgr A*, with no observed jet, seems to have a very similar geometry, perhaps there is also a jet lurking in Sgr A* waiting to be observed, which would be super exciting!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results suggest a deeper investigation of Sgr A* may uncover hitherto undiscovered features. The polarization of light and neat and strong magnetic fields of Sgr A*, and the fact that they closely resemble that of M87*, may indicate that our central black hole has been hiding a secret from us until now. \u201cWe expect [\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-186149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186149","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=186149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}