{"id":202130,"date":"2024-12-22T02:27:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T08:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/scientists-discover-2-stars-orbiting-our-galaxys-supermassive-black-hole-in-lockstep-and-they-could-point-to-a-type-of-planet-never-seen-before"},"modified":"2024-12-22T02:27:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T08:27:05","slug":"scientists-discover-2-stars-orbiting-our-galaxys-supermassive-black-hole-in-lockstep-and-they-could-point-to-a-type-of-planet-never-seen-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/scientists-discover-2-stars-orbiting-our-galaxys-supermassive-black-hole-in-lockstep-and-they-could-point-to-a-type-of-planet-never-seen-before","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover 2 stars orbiting our galaxy\u2019s supermassive black hole in lockstep \u2014 and they could point to a type of planet never seen before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-2-stars-orbiting-our-galaxys-supermassive-black-hole-in-lockstep-and-they-could-point-to-a-type-of-planet-never-seen-before2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them can offer a rare glimpse into how stars can endure \u2014 at least briefly \u2014 the immense gravity exerted by such cosmic behemoths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them can offer a rare glimpse into how stars can endure \u2014 at least briefly \u2014 the immense gravity exerted by such cosmic behemoths.<\/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-202130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202130","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=202130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}