{"id":218270,"date":"2025-07-19T02:17:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/heaviest-black-hole-merger-flouts-a-forbidden-gap"},"modified":"2025-07-19T02:17:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:17:38","slug":"heaviest-black-hole-merger-flouts-a-forbidden-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/heaviest-black-hole-merger-flouts-a-forbidden-gap","title":{"rendered":"Heaviest Black Hole Merger Flouts a Forbidden Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heaviest-black-hole-merger-flouts-a-forbidden-gap.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists observe the most massive merger event yet, with the colliding black holes lying in a mass range that is incompatible with the standard stellar-formation scenario.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists observe the most massive merger event yet, with the colliding black holes lying in a mass range that is incompatible with the standard stellar-formation scenario.<\/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-218270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218270","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=218270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}