{"id":20082,"date":"2015-12-18T10:31:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T18:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/we-finally-know-whats-inside-these-mysterious-black-hole-clouds"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:15:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:15:12","slug":"we-finally-know-whats-inside-these-mysterious-black-hole-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/we-finally-know-whats-inside-these-mysterious-black-hole-clouds","title":{"rendered":"We Finally Know What\u2019s Inside These Mysterious Black Hole Clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-finally-know-whats-inside-these-mysterious-black-hole-clouds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Awe inspiring stuff, this.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Black holes are some of the strangest objects in the universe. But, just as impenetrable a mystery? The heavy cloud cover encircling some black holes. Now, for the first time, researchers say they\u2019ve managed to get a glimpse inside of one of those clouds. And what they found has some serious implications for our most basic understanding of black holes.<\/p>\n<p>Some black holes are shielded by heavy clouds of gas and dust that are so thick that they\u2019re impossible to see through with our telescopes. The reasons why have plagued scientists. But a brand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.php?feature=4798\" target=\"_blank\">new X-ray view taken by a joint team from NASA and the European Space Agency<\/a> of galaxy NGC 1068, and the black hole that lies at its center, just changed all that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-finally-know-whats-inside-these-mysterious-black-hole-clouds2.jpg\" width=\"762\" height=\"600\" alt=\"We Finally Know What\u2019s Inside These Mysterious Black Hole Clouds\" data-chomp-id=\"hplanodhahsdzmayss7w\" data-asset-url=\"http:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/s--elZ16puH--\/hplanodhahsdzmayss7w.jpg\" data-format=\"jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/we-finally-know-what-s-inside-these-mysterious-black-ho-1748696128\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awe inspiring stuff, this. Black holes are some of the strangest objects in the universe. But, just as impenetrable a mystery? The heavy cloud cover encircling some black holes. Now, for the first time, researchers say they\u2019ve managed to get a glimpse inside of one of those clouds. And what they found has some serious [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20082","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63447,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20082\/revisions\/63447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}