{"id":200386,"date":"2024-11-28T21:25:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T03:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/video-black-holes-heres-what-they-are-and-why-scientists-are-still-puzzled"},"modified":"2024-11-28T21:25:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T03:25:05","slug":"video-black-holes-heres-what-they-are-and-why-scientists-are-still-puzzled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/video-black-holes-heres-what-they-are-and-why-scientists-are-still-puzzled","title":{"rendered":"Video: Black holes \u2014 here\u2019s what they are and why scientists are still puzzled"},"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\/VRLCAN4inEw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Black holes are some of the most mysterious phenomena in space that have puzzled scientists ever since their discovery. Extreme levels of gravitational pull suck in everything around the black hole, even light. Black holes are the complete absence of any source of light, resulting in total darkness.<\/p>\n<p>According to a video posted by the popular YouTube channel Riddle, a black hole\u2019s origins can be traced back to a star that has burnt up and turned into a supernova. One of the largest known black holes has a mass that is forty billion times larger than our sun in our solar system. This black hole is situated in a galaxy called \u201cHolmberg 15A,\u201d which is approximately 700 million lightyears away.<\/p>\n<p>When any matter approaches a black hole, several different events occur. One of these outcomes is known as the \u201caccretion disk,\u201d which changes the properties of the item approaching the black hole. Although black holes are typically associated as ever present and enduring vacuums that continuously \u201ctake,\u201d they eventually dissipate over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black holes are some of the most mysterious phenomena in space that have puzzled scientists ever since their discovery. Extreme levels of gravitational pull suck in everything around the black hole, even light. Black holes are the complete absence of any source of light, resulting in total darkness. According to a video posted by the [\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-200386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200386","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=200386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}