{"id":221752,"date":"2025-09-12T04:25:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/90-chance-physicists-predict-a-black-hole-could-explode-this-decade"},"modified":"2025-09-12T04:25:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:25:17","slug":"90-chance-physicists-predict-a-black-hole-could-explode-this-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/90-chance-physicists-predict-a-black-hole-could-explode-this-decade","title":{"rendered":"90% Chance: Physicists Predict a Black Hole Could Explode This Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0daBPS-FmD0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>UMass Amherst physicists believe such an explosion could occur within the next decade, potentially \u201crevolutionizing physics and rewriting the history of the universe.\u201d Physicists have long thought that black holes end their lives in rare explosions that occur, at most, once every 100,000 years. N<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UMass Amherst physicists believe such an explosion could occur within the next decade, potentially \u201crevolutionizing physics and rewriting the history of the universe.\u201d Physicists have long thought that black holes end their lives in rare explosions that occur, at most, once every 100,000 years. N<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221752","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=221752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}