{"id":219189,"date":"2025-08-01T04:20:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T09:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/nothing-like-weve-ever-seen-jwst-exposes-dormant-black-holes-devouring-stars"},"modified":"2025-08-01T04:20:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T09:20:37","slug":"nothing-like-weve-ever-seen-jwst-exposes-dormant-black-holes-devouring-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/nothing-like-weve-ever-seen-jwst-exposes-dormant-black-holes-devouring-stars","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNothing Like We\u2019ve Ever Seen\u201d \u2014 JWST Exposes Dormant Black Holes Devouring Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nothing-like-weve-ever-seen-jwst-exposes-dormant-black-holes-devouring-stars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unlike active galaxies that endlessly devour nearby matter, these black holes remain in slumber, stirring only momentarily to consume an unlucky passing star. Astronomers from MIT, Columbia University, and other institutions have used NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to look through thick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike active galaxies that endlessly devour nearby matter, these black holes remain in slumber, stirring only momentarily to consume an unlucky passing star. Astronomers from MIT, Columbia University, and other institutions have used NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to look through thick<\/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-219189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219189","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=219189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}