{"id":214764,"date":"2025-05-26T02:13:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T07:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/could-black-holes-be-growing-inside-stars-silently-and-forever"},"modified":"2025-05-26T02:13:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T07:13:30","slug":"could-black-holes-be-growing-inside-stars-silently-and-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/could-black-holes-be-growing-inside-stars-silently-and-forever","title":{"rendered":"Could black holes be growing inside stars\u2014silently and forever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-black-holes-be-growing-inside-stars-silently-and-forever2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When people think of black holes, they imagine something dramatic: a star exploding in space, collapsing in on itself, and forming a cosmic monster that eats everything around it. But what if black holes didn\u2019t always begin with a bang? What if, instead, they started quietly\u2014growing inside stars, which still appear alive from the outside, without anyone noticing?<\/p>\n<p>Our recent astrophysical research, <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prd\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevD.111.103033\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Physical Review D<\/i>, suggests this could be happening\u2014and the story is far stranger and more fascinating than we imagined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people think of black holes, they imagine something dramatic: a star exploding in space, collapsing in on itself, and forming a cosmic monster that eats everything around it. But what if black holes didn\u2019t always begin with a bang? What if, instead, they started quietly\u2014growing inside stars, which still appear alive from the outside, [\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-214764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214764","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=214764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}