{"id":223352,"date":"2025-10-14T03:29:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/two-black-holes-locked-in-a-death-spiral-imaged-in-stunning-first"},"modified":"2025-10-14T03:29:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:29:25","slug":"two-black-holes-locked-in-a-death-spiral-imaged-in-stunning-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/two-black-holes-locked-in-a-death-spiral-imaged-in-stunning-first","title":{"rendered":"Two Black Holes Locked in a Death Spiral Imaged in Stunning First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-black-holes-locked-in-a-death-spiral-imaged-in-stunning-first2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The complex dance of two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">black holes<\/a> locked in a doomed orbit has been revealed in a first-of-its-kind direct radio image.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first time astronomers have directly imaged the distinct jets of both black holes in a known binary \u2013 finally confirming the model of the double core of a galaxy called OJ 287.<\/p>\n<p>In OJ 287, located some 3.5 billion light-years away, the intricate, extreme interplay between the two central supermassive black holes has been documented for decades. This is the first image to capture smoking-gun signatures of both objects, however.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The complex dance of two black holes locked in a doomed orbit has been revealed in a first-of-its-kind direct radio image. It\u2019s the first time astronomers have directly imaged the distinct jets of both black holes in a known binary \u2013 finally confirming the model of the double core of a galaxy called OJ 287. [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223352","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=223352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}