{"id":218601,"date":"2025-07-24T04:19:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/never-been-seen-before-astronomers-discover-bizarre-infinity-galaxy"},"modified":"2025-07-24T04:19:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:19:17","slug":"never-been-seen-before-astronomers-discover-bizarre-infinity-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/never-been-seen-before-astronomers-discover-bizarre-infinity-galaxy","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNever Been Seen Before\u201d \u2014 Astronomers Discover Bizarre \u201cInfinity\u201d Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/never-been-seen-before-astronomers-discover-bizarre-infinity-galaxy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have discovered a galaxy shaped like an infinity symbol that may contain the first directly observed newborn supermassive black hole. Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and his team have identified a remarkable object in deep space, which they\u2019ve named the \u201cInfinity\u201d galaxy. This struc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have discovered a galaxy shaped like an infinity symbol that may contain the first directly observed newborn supermassive black hole. Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and his team have identified a remarkable object in deep space, which they\u2019ve named the \u201cInfinity\u201d galaxy. This struc<\/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-218601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218601","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=218601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}