{"id":207097,"date":"2025-02-23T23:13:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T05:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/why-are-fireworks-coming-from-a-black-hole-this-is-what-scientists-say"},"modified":"2025-02-23T23:13:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T05:13:44","slug":"why-are-fireworks-coming-from-a-black-hole-this-is-what-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/why-are-fireworks-coming-from-a-black-hole-this-is-what-scientists-say","title":{"rendered":"Why are \u2018fireworks\u2019 coming from a black hole? This is what scientists say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-are-fireworks-coming-from-a-black-hole-this-is-what-scientists-say.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way galaxy is creating a light show that\u2019s intriguing astronomers.<\/p>\n<p>Flares of light have been observed in a disk orbiting the black hole Sagittarius A*, according to a team of astrophysicists studying the black hole who published their findings Tuesday in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Known as an accretion disk, it\u2019s hot, contains a steady flow of materials like gas or plasma, and flickers constantly. The disks emit light that can be detected using infrared and X-ray instruments, which helps astronomers better observe the black holes the disks orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way galaxy is creating a light show that\u2019s intriguing astronomers. Flares of light have been observed in a disk orbiting the black hole Sagittarius A*, according to a team of astrophysicists studying the black hole who published their findings Tuesday in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207097","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}