{"id":211227,"date":"2025-04-12T05:18:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T10:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/this-star-got-kicked-out-at-a-million-mph-and-exposed-a-hidden-black-hole"},"modified":"2025-04-12T05:18:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T10:18:17","slug":"this-star-got-kicked-out-at-a-million-mph-and-exposed-a-hidden-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/this-star-got-kicked-out-at-a-million-mph-and-exposed-a-hidden-black-hole","title":{"rendered":"This Star Got Kicked Out at a Million MPH \u2014 And Exposed a Hidden Black Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-star-got-kicked-out-at-a-million-mph-and-exposed-a-hidden-black-hole.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have uncovered the strongest evidence yet for the existence of elusive intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), long thought to be the missing link between stellar-mass and supermassive black holes. By tracking a hypervelocity star, J0731+3717, that appears to have been ejected from the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have uncovered the strongest evidence yet for the existence of elusive intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), long thought to be the missing link between stellar-mass and supermassive black holes. By tracking a hypervelocity star, J0731+3717, that appears to have been ejected from the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211227","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}