{"id":200891,"date":"2024-12-06T14:25:54","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T20:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/nasas-swift-studies-gas-churning-monster-black-holes"},"modified":"2024-12-06T14:25:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T20:25:54","slug":"nasas-swift-studies-gas-churning-monster-black-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/nasas-swift-studies-gas-churning-monster-black-holes","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Swift Studies Gas-Churning Monster Black Holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-swift-studies-gas-churning-monster-black-holes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists using observations from NASA\u2019s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a very weird event, called AT 2021hdr, that keeps recurring every few months,\u201d said Lorena Hern\u00e1ndez-Garc\u00eda, an astrophysicist at the Millennium Institute of Astrophysics, the Millennium Nucleus on Transversal Research and Technology to Explore Supermassive Black Holes, and University of Valpara\u00edso in Chile. \u201cWe think that a gas cloud engulfed the black holes. As they orbit each other, the black holes interact with the cloud, perturbing and consuming its gas. This produces an oscillating pattern in the light from the system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A paper about AT 2021hdr, led by Hern\u00e1ndez-Garc\u00eda, was published Nov. 13 in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists using observations from NASA\u2019s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a galaxy. \u201cIt\u2019s a very weird event, called AT 2021hdr, that keeps recurring every few months,\u201d said Lorena Hern\u00e1ndez-Garc\u00eda, an astrophysicist at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200891","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}