{"id":187469,"date":"2024-04-16T04:24:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T09:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/most-massive-stellar-black-hole-in-our-galaxy-found"},"modified":"2024-04-16T04:24:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T09:24:47","slug":"most-massive-stellar-black-hole-in-our-galaxy-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/most-massive-stellar-black-hole-in-our-galaxy-found","title":{"rendered":"Most massive stellar black hole in our galaxy found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/most-massive-stellar-black-hole-in-our-galaxy-found2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have identified the most massive stellar black hole yet discovered in the Milky Way galaxy. This black hole was spotted in data from the European Space Agency\u2019s Gaia mission because it imposes an odd \u2018wobbling\u2019 motion on the companion star orbiting it. Data from the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT) and other ground-based observatories were used to verify the mass of the black hole, putting it at an impressive 33 times that of the sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have identified the most massive stellar black hole yet discovered in the Milky Way galaxy. This black hole was spotted in data from the European Space Agency\u2019s Gaia mission because it imposes an odd \u2018wobbling\u2019 motion on the companion star orbiting it. Data from the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT) and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187469","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}