{"id":220016,"date":"2025-08-13T04:21:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/astronomers-spot-the-eye-of-sauron-in-deep-space"},"modified":"2025-08-13T04:21:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:21:19","slug":"astronomers-spot-the-eye-of-sauron-in-deep-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/astronomers-spot-the-eye-of-sauron-in-deep-space","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers spot the \u2018Eye of Sauron\u2019 in deep space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-spot-the-eye-of-sauron-in-deep-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A stunning new image of a cosmic jet has helped astronomers unlock the mystery behind the unusually bright emission of high-energy gamma rays and neutrinos from a peculiar celestial object. The source is a blazar\u2014a type of active galaxy powered by a supermassive black hole devouring matter at the heart of a galaxy. They have captured what looks like the mythical \u201cEye of Sauron\u201d in the distant universe and may have just solved a decade-long cosmic puzzle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stunning new image of a cosmic jet has helped astronomers unlock the mystery behind the unusually bright emission of high-energy gamma rays and neutrinos from a peculiar celestial object. The source is a blazar\u2014a type of active galaxy powered by a supermassive black hole devouring matter at the heart of a galaxy. They have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220016","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=220016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}