{"id":34721,"date":"2017-02-20T15:42:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T23:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/scientists-might-be-just-weeks-away-from-taking-the-first-real-picture-of-a-black-hole"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:50:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:50:42","slug":"scientists-might-be-just-weeks-away-from-taking-the-first-real-picture-of-a-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/scientists-might-be-just-weeks-away-from-taking-the-first-real-picture-of-a-black-hole","title":{"rendered":"Scientists might be just weeks away from taking the first real picture of a black hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-might-be-just-weeks-away-from-taking-the-first-real-picture-of-a-black-hole.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twenty years after the project began, scientists think they are now just weeks away from receiving their first picture of a black hole.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers behind the creation of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) are mind boggling enough, let alone the thought of what it might see on April 5 when it\u2019s trained on Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s 26,000 light years from Earth. Even though its \u201cedge\u201d is 20-odd million kilometres across, EHT team members say seeing it is still like trying to pinpoint a grapefruit on the Moon.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/scientists-might-be-weeks-from-taking-first-picture-of-a-black-hole-2017-2\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/scientists-might-be-weeks-fro...2017&#45;2<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty years after the project began, scientists think they are now just weeks away from receiving their first picture of a black hole. The numbers behind the creation of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) are mind boggling enough, let alone the thought of what it might see on April 5 when it\u2019s trained on Sagittarius [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34721","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48805,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34721\/revisions\/48805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}