{"id":203706,"date":"2025-01-14T03:15:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T09:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/strange-flashes-could-be-signs-of-closest-object-seen-near-a-black-hole"},"modified":"2025-01-14T03:15:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T09:15:33","slug":"strange-flashes-could-be-signs-of-closest-object-seen-near-a-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/strange-flashes-could-be-signs-of-closest-object-seen-near-a-black-hole","title":{"rendered":"Strange Flashes Could Be Signs of Closest Object Seen Near a Black Hole"},"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\/8GnSFAZD8YY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Some 275 million light-years from the Milky Way lies a true cosmic mystery.<\/p>\n<p>There, in the heart of a galaxy named 1ES 1927+654, squats a supermassive black hole whose monkeyshines and hijinks have baffled astronomers for years.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we might finally have an explanation for at least some of its wild misbehavior: an orbiting white dwarf star veering precariously close to the brink of the black hole\u2019s event horizon, the point beyond which no matter can ever return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 275 million light-years from the Milky Way lies a true cosmic mystery. There, in the heart of a galaxy named 1ES 1927+654, squats a supermassive black hole whose monkeyshines and hijinks have baffled astronomers for years. Now, we might finally have an explanation for at least some of its wild misbehavior: an orbiting white [\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-203706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203706","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=203706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}