{"id":33284,"date":"2017-01-08T10:34:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T18:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/astronomers-have-discovered-an-insane-galactic-particle-accelerator-fuelled-by-a-black-hole"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:53:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:53:43","slug":"astronomers-have-discovered-an-insane-galactic-particle-accelerator-fuelled-by-a-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/astronomers-have-discovered-an-insane-galactic-particle-accelerator-fuelled-by-a-black-hole","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Have Discovered an Insane Galactic Particle Accelerator, Fuelled by a Black Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-have-discovered-an-insane-galactic-particle-accelerator-fuelled-by-a-black-hole.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of astronomers have discovered a \u2018cosmic one-two punch\u2019 in the night sky that has never been seen before. In one image, the team managed to spot a supermassive black hole and two gigantic galaxy clusters colliding at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Matter ejected from the black hole gets caught up inside the violent galactic collisions, turning this dynamic duo into one hell of an enormous cosmic particle accelerator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have seen each of these spectacular phenomena separately in many places,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-01-astronomers-powerful-cosmic-whammy.html\">said team leader Reinout van Weeren<\/a>, from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/astronomers-have-spotted-a-supermassive-black-hole-and-colliding-galaxies-in-the-same-image\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/astronomers-have-spotted-a-super...same-image<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of astronomers have discovered a \u2018cosmic one-two punch\u2019 in the night sky that has never been seen before. In one image, the team managed to spot a supermassive black hole and two gigantic galaxy clusters colliding at the same time. Matter ejected from the black hole gets caught up inside the violent [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33284","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65418,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33284\/revisions\/65418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}