{"id":191262,"date":"2024-06-15T16:23:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T21:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/12-billion-years-of-black-hole-history-revealed-through-x-rays-and-simulations"},"modified":"2024-06-15T16:23:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T21:23:36","slug":"12-billion-years-of-black-hole-history-revealed-through-x-rays-and-simulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/12-billion-years-of-black-hole-history-revealed-through-x-rays-and-simulations","title":{"rendered":"12 billion years of black hole history, revealed through X-rays and simulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R88-17l-XHE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now, however, astronomers Fan Zou and W. Niel Brandt, both of Penn State University, have led a team that connected the two mechanisms of black-hole growth from observations and simulations. The results may provide some answers at last.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/milky-way-supermassive-black-hole-flares-echoes\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/milky-way-supermassive-black-hole-flares-echoes\"><strong>NASA telescope spots \u2018cosmic fireworks\u2019 and faint echos from the Milky Way\u2019s supermassive black hole<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA very big question is how do these supermassive black holes grow so massive?\u201d said Zou while presenting their work at the 244th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Wisconsin\u2026 \u201cTo address that, we need to track the overall growth history of these supermassive black holes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, however, astronomers Fan Zou and W. Niel Brandt, both of Penn State University, have led a team that connected the two mechanisms of black-hole growth from observations and simulations. The results may provide some answers at last. Related: NASA telescope spots \u2018cosmic fireworks\u2019 and faint echos from the Milky Way\u2019s supermassive black hole \u201cA [\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-191262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191262","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=191262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}