{"id":76278,"date":"2018-02-23T23:44:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T07:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/for-the-first-time-ever-astronomers-have-observed-a-black-hole-ejecting-matter-twice"},"modified":"2018-02-25T11:04:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T19:04:00","slug":"for-the-first-time-ever-astronomers-have-observed-a-black-hole-ejecting-matter-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/for-the-first-time-ever-astronomers-have-observed-a-black-hole-ejecting-matter-twice","title":{"rendered":"For The First Time Ever, Astronomers Have Observed a Black Hole Ejecting Matter Twice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dBKy-I6UWsw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Black holes don\u2019t just sit there munching away constantly on the space around them. Eventually they run out of nearby matter and go quiet, lying in wait until a stray bit of gas passes by.<\/p>\n<p>Then a black hole devours again, belching out a giant jet of particles. And now scientists have captured one doing so not once, but twice \u2014 the first time this has been observed.<\/p>\n<p>The two burps, occurring within the span of 100,000 years, confirm that supermassive black holes go through cycles of hibernation and activity.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/supermassive-black-hole-feeding-double-burp\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/supermassive-black-hole-feeding-double-burp<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black holes don\u2019t just sit there munching away constantly on the space around them. Eventually they run out of nearby matter and go quiet, lying in wait until a stray bit of gas passes by. Then a black hole devours again, belching out a giant jet of particles. And now scientists have captured one doing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76278","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\/76278","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76329,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76278\/revisions\/76329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}