{"id":228140,"date":"2025-12-31T13:13:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/three-supermassive-black-holes-have-been-spotted-merging-into-one"},"modified":"2025-12-31T13:13:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:13:20","slug":"three-supermassive-black-holes-have-been-spotted-merging-into-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/three-supermassive-black-holes-have-been-spotted-merging-into-one","title":{"rendered":"Three supermassive black holes have been spotted merging into one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/three-supermassive-black-holes-have-been-spotted-merging-into-one.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have found a system of three supermassive black holes, all actively feeding, that appear to be combining into a single system \u2013 a rare event that will help elucidate the physics of complex mergers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have found a system of three supermassive black holes, all actively feeding, that appear to be combining into a single system \u2013 a rare event that will help elucidate the physics of complex mergers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228140","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}