{"id":76115,"date":"2018-02-21T12:22:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T20:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/astronomers-just-found-some-of-the-most-massive-black-holes-discovered-in-our-universe"},"modified":"2018-02-25T11:12:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T19:12:13","slug":"astronomers-just-found-some-of-the-most-massive-black-holes-discovered-in-our-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/astronomers-just-found-some-of-the-most-massive-black-holes-discovered-in-our-universe","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Just Found Some of The Most Massive Black Holes Discovered in Our Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-just-found-some-of-the-most-massive-black-holes-discovered-in-our-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A study on dozens of galaxies within several billion light years of our own has revealed black holes that far exceed our expectations on just how big these monsters can grow.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery not only helps us better understand the evolution of our Universe\u2019s building blocks, it leaves us with a new intriguing question \u2013 just how do black holes like these get to be so incredibly massive?<\/p>\n<p>By now, the collapsed cores of massive stars known as black holes need no introduction. We\u2019ve heard about their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/ligo-discovers-backwards-spinning-black-holes-in-yet-another-set-of-gravitational-waves\">cosmic crashes rippling space-time<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/supermassive-black-hole-feeding-double-burp\">watched them belch<\/a>, and expect to capture the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-year-might-see-a-black-hole-for-the-first-time-in-history-event-horizon-telescope\">closest look yet at their nature<\/a> very soon.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/research-challenges-ultramassive-black-hole-formation\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/research-challenges-ultramassiv...-formation<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study on dozens of galaxies within several billion light years of our own has revealed black holes that far exceed our expectations on just how big these monsters can grow. The discovery not only helps us better understand the evolution of our Universe\u2019s building blocks, it leaves us with a new intriguing question \u2013 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,385,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-evolution","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76115","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76189,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76115\/revisions\/76189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}