{"id":33986,"date":"2017-02-01T01:24:09","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T09:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/these-powerful-blazars-are-the-most-distant-ever-seen"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:56:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:56:30","slug":"these-powerful-blazars-are-the-most-distant-ever-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/these-powerful-blazars-are-the-most-distant-ever-seen","title":{"rendered":"These powerful blazars are the most distant ever seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-powerful-blazars-are-the-most-distant-ever-seen.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Monster <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/black-hole-rips-star-apart-creating-biggest-blast-ever-seen\/\" target=\"_blank\">black holes<\/a> shooting jets of gamma-ray radiation right at us have been spotted farther away than ever before, dating back to when the universe was nearly one-tenth its current age.<\/p>\n<p>The five distant objects, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/can-black-holes-transport-you-to-other-worlds\/\" target=\"_blank\">gamma-ray<\/a> blazars, deepen the mystery of how black holes so large could have formed so early in the universe\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Roopesh Ojha, an astronomer at NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, presented the new results during a press conference today (Jan. 30) at the American Physical Society meeting in Washington, D.C. The results will also be published in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/35497-gamma-ray-blazars-powered-by-supersized-black-holes-found-video.html\" target=\"_blank\">Found: Gamma-Ray Blazars Powered by \u2018Supersized\u2019 Black Holes (Video)<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/these-powerful-blazars-are-the-most-distant-ever-seen\/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&amp;linkId=33977277\">http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/these-powerful-blazars-are-the-m...d=33977277<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monster black holes shooting jets of gamma-ray radiation right at us have been spotted farther away than ever before, dating back to when the universe was nearly one-tenth its current age. The five distant objects, called gamma-ray blazars, deepen the mystery of how black holes so large could have formed so early in the universe\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33986","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49230,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33986\/revisions\/49230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}