{"id":201562,"date":"2024-12-13T22:05:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T04:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/scientists-set-out-to-capture-a-black-hole-an-explosion-photobombed"},"modified":"2024-12-13T22:05:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T04:05:01","slug":"scientists-set-out-to-capture-a-black-hole-an-explosion-photobombed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/scientists-set-out-to-capture-a-black-hole-an-explosion-photobombed","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Set Out to Capture a Black Hole \u2014 an Explosion Photobombed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-set-out-to-capture-a-black-hole-an-explosion-photobombed3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you stare for long enough into the heart of a galaxy to try to catch a glimpse of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">black hole<\/a> that lurks therein, that may not be all you catch.<\/p>\n<p>When a huge collaboration directed telescopes around the world to the heart of galaxy M87 in 2018 in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/it-s-official-global-collaboration-of-astronomers-have-taken-the-first-ever-black-hole-photo\">ultimately successful effort to capture detail of its supermassive black hole<\/a>, they also managed to observe some of the wild shenanigans such a black hole engages in.<\/p>\n<p>Now, astronomers discovered that one of those shenanigans was a colossal belch \u2013 a gamma-ray eruption from one of the powerful jets of plasma launched from the black hole\u2019s poles as it feeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you stare for long enough into the heart of a galaxy to try to catch a glimpse of the black hole that lurks therein, that may not be all you catch. When a huge collaboration directed telescopes around the world to the heart of galaxy M87 in 2018 in an ultimately successful effort to [\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-201562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201562","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=201562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}