{"id":244084,"date":"2026-09-15T21:25:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/a-famous-galaxys-black-hole-has-been-hiding-its-most-violent-behavior"},"modified":"2026-09-15T21:25:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:25:58","slug":"a-famous-galaxys-black-hole-has-been-hiding-its-most-violent-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/a-famous-galaxys-black-hole-has-been-hiding-its-most-violent-behavior","title":{"rendered":"A famous galaxy\u2019s black hole has been hiding its most violent behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-famous-galaxys-black-hole-has-been-hiding-its-most-violent-behavior2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have found that a nearby galaxy\u2019s black hole is blasting out a far more powerful and hidden gas outflow than previously realized. Studying NGC 1068, a well-known galaxy with an actively feeding black hole at its center, researchers combined new infrared observations with existing data to map how the black hole\u2019s energy is reshaping the surrounding gas. The results are reported in a paper published Aug. 6 in Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have found that a nearby galaxy\u2019s black hole is blasting out a far more powerful and hidden gas outflow than previously realized. Studying NGC 1068, a well-known galaxy with an actively feeding black hole at its center, researchers combined new infrared observations with existing data to map how the black hole\u2019s energy is reshaping [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244084","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=244084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}