{"id":231382,"date":"2026-02-15T05:06:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T11:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/the-center-of-our-galaxy-may-not-be-a-black-hole"},"modified":"2026-02-15T05:06:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T11:06:01","slug":"the-center-of-our-galaxy-may-not-be-a-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/the-center-of-our-galaxy-may-not-be-a-black-hole","title":{"rendered":"The Center of Our Galaxy May Not Be a Black Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-center-of-our-galaxy-may-not-be-a-black-hole.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What if the Milky Way\u2019s central \u201cblack hole\u201d isn\u2019t a black hole at all? A new model proposes that an ultra-dense dark matter core could mimic its gravitational pull.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if the Milky Way\u2019s central \u201cblack hole\u201d isn\u2019t a black hole at all? A new model proposes that an ultra-dense dark matter core could mimic its gravitational pull.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231382","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=231382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}