{"id":196200,"date":"2024-09-15T05:23:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T10:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/astronomers-discover-a-rare-black-hole-that-defies-astrophysical-theories"},"modified":"2024-09-15T05:23:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T10:23:41","slug":"astronomers-discover-a-rare-black-hole-that-defies-astrophysical-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/astronomers-discover-a-rare-black-hole-that-defies-astrophysical-theories","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Discover a Rare Black Hole That Defies Astrophysical Theories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-discover-a-rare-black-hole-that-defies-astrophysical-theories.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chinese astronomers have uncovered a low-mass black hole that challenges long-held astrophysical theories. This black hole, part of a binary system known as G3425, has a mass of about 3.6 solar masses, placing it in the elusive mass-gap where black holes were previously thought to be absent. The discovery was made using a combination of radial velo\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese astronomers have uncovered a low-mass black hole that challenges long-held astrophysical theories. This black hole, part of a binary system known as G3425, has a mass of about 3.6 solar masses, placing it in the elusive mass-gap where black holes were previously thought to be absent. The discovery was made using a combination of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196200","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}