{"id":236951,"date":"2026-05-12T02:34:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/scientists-just-discovered-how-the-universe-builds-monster-black-holes"},"modified":"2026-05-12T02:34:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:34:01","slug":"scientists-just-discovered-how-the-universe-builds-monster-black-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/scientists-just-discovered-how-the-universe-builds-monster-black-holes","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Just Discovered How the Universe Builds Monster Black Holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-discovered-how-the-universe-builds-monster-black-holes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The biggest black holes in the Universe may be built through chains of violent mergers deep inside crowded star clusters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest black holes in the Universe may be built through chains of violent mergers deep inside crowded star clusters.<\/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-236951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236951","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=236951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}