{"id":190971,"date":"2024-06-10T18:22:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T23:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/a-rare-black-hole-is-lurking-6000-light-years-away-in-earths-cosmic-backyard"},"modified":"2024-06-10T18:22:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T23:22:24","slug":"a-rare-black-hole-is-lurking-6000-light-years-away-in-earths-cosmic-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/a-rare-black-hole-is-lurking-6000-light-years-away-in-earths-cosmic-backyard","title":{"rendered":"A rare black hole is lurking 6,000 light-years away in Earth\u2019s cosmic backyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-rare-black-hole-is-lurking-6000-light-years-away-in-earths-cosmic-backyard2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers, with the help of the Hubble telescope, have now detected a rare intermediate-size black hole.<\/p>\n<p>This black hole is hiding the Earth\u2019s cosmic backyard at a distance of 6,000 light-years away within a globular star cluster.<\/p>\n<p>The iconic Hubble Space Telescope has been used by astronomers to observe a compact region of space which has a mass of 800 Suns and is likely to be a black hole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers, with the help of the Hubble telescope, have now detected a rare intermediate-size black hole. This black hole is hiding the Earth\u2019s cosmic backyard at a distance of 6,000 light-years away within a globular star cluster. The iconic Hubble Space Telescope has been used by astronomers to observe a compact region of space which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190971","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}