{"id":206431,"date":"2025-02-14T14:15:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T20:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/a-supermassive-black-hole-is-on-a-collision-course-with-the-milky-way"},"modified":"2025-02-14T14:15:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T20:15:25","slug":"a-supermassive-black-hole-is-on-a-collision-course-with-the-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/a-supermassive-black-hole-is-on-a-collision-course-with-the-milky-way","title":{"rendered":"A Supermassive Black Hole Is on a Collision Course With The Milky Way"},"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\/f_w6JprsXK8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A Milky Way collision with a supermassive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">black hole<\/a> might be closer than we thought.<\/p>\n<p>Hidden deep in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-large-magellanic-cloud-totally-once-ate-another-galaxy\">Large Magellanic Cloud dwarf galaxy<\/a> that orbits the Milky Way on an ever-closing loop, signs of a massive invisible object clocking in at around 600,000 times the mass of the Sun have been detected.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Large Magellanic Cloud will one day collide with our own galaxy, that means the black hole is also destined to come crashing in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Milky Way collision with a supermassive black hole might be closer than we thought. Hidden deep in the Large Magellanic Cloud dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way on an ever-closing loop, signs of a massive invisible object clocking in at around 600,000 times the mass of the Sun have been detected. Since the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206431","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}