{"id":77522,"date":"2018-04-04T11:24:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T18:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/astronomers-find-evidence-of-thousands-of-black-holes-at-the-center-of-our-galaxy"},"modified":"2018-04-04T11:24:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T18:24:29","slug":"astronomers-find-evidence-of-thousands-of-black-holes-at-the-center-of-our-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/astronomers-find-evidence-of-thousands-of-black-holes-at-the-center-of-our-galaxy","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Find Evidence of Thousands of Black Holes at the Center of Our Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-find-evidence-of-thousands-of-black-holes-at-the-center-of-our-galaxy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have long predicted that as many as 20,000 black holes could be hiding in our galaxy\u2019s center, but so far no one has been able to spot them. Until now.<\/p>\n<p>A Columbia University-led team of scientists dug through data taken with the Earth-orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory to find the objects. They managed to find a dozen characteristic x-ray sources spewing energy from the galaxy\u2019s inner three light-years. This is the first time anyone has observed these black holes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the confirmation of several theories that predicted this ought to be the case,\u201d study author Chuck Hailey, Columbia University astrophysics professor, told Gizmodo. \u201cBut it\u2019s strange to have had this many and not really see them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/astronomers-find-evidence-of-thousands-of-black-holes-a-1824321348\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/astronomers-find-evidence-of-thousands-o...1824321348<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have long predicted that as many as 20,000 black holes could be hiding in our galaxy\u2019s center, but so far no one has been able to spot them. Until now. A Columbia University-led team of scientists dug through data taken with the Earth-orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory to find the objects. They managed to find [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77522","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=77522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}