{"id":196502,"date":"2024-09-21T16:31:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T21:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/entire-swarm-of-black-holes-detected-moving-through-the-milky-way"},"modified":"2024-09-21T16:31:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T21:31:05","slug":"entire-swarm-of-black-holes-detected-moving-through-the-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/entire-swarm-of-black-holes-detected-moving-through-the-milky-way","title":{"rendered":"Entire Swarm of Black Holes Detected Moving Through The Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/entire-swarm-of-black-holes-detected-moving-through-the-milky-way2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I find it weird that black holes would be moving throughout the galaxy because most are stationary.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass <a href=\"https:\/\/sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">black holes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The star cluster in question is called Palomar 5. It\u2019s a stellar stream that stretches out across 30,000 light-years, and is located around 80,000 light-years away.<\/p>\n<p>Such globular clusters are often considered \u2018fossils\u2019 of the early Universe. They\u2019re very dense and spherical, typically containing roughly 100,000 to 1 million very old stars; some, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NGC_6397\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">like NGC 6397<\/a>, are nearly as old as the Universe itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find it weird that black holes would be moving throughout the galaxy because most are stationary. A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes. The star cluster in question is called Palomar 5. It\u2019s a stellar stream [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196502","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}