{"id":78969,"date":"2018-05-24T21:02:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T04:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/does-a-black-hole-ever-die"},"modified":"2018-05-26T07:03:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T14:03:21","slug":"does-a-black-hole-ever-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/does-a-black-hole-ever-die","title":{"rendered":"Does a black hole ever die?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/does-a-black-hole-ever-die.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomer Misty Bentz would like you to know that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/tags\/black-holes\">black holes<\/a> don\u2019t suck. \u201cThey\u2019re not cosmic vacuum cleaners going around and sucking everything in,\u201d she says. \u201cThey just use gravity the same way everything else does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead of a cosmic drinking straw, a black hole is a place in the universe that is so massive and dense that anything caught in its significant gravitational pull is unable to escape.<\/p>\n<p>Black holes have been in the news a lot lately, from the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2018\/04\/black-hole-stellar-binary-stars-milky-way-galaxy\/\">swarm<\/a> found near the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/40596-fastest-growing-black-hole-found.html\">the fastest-growing black hole<\/a> ever observed, which ingests the equivalent of the mass of our Sun every two days, to the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/jpl\/nustar\/pia18842\">distant<\/a> black hole ever detected, dating to the dawn of the universe. From their inception to their potential demise <em>far<\/em> in the future, black holes are a fascinating part of our universe. Here\u2019s their story as we understand it now, from start to finish.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/black-hole-birth-growth-death\">https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/black-hole-birth-growth-death<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomer Misty Bentz would like you to know that black holes don\u2019t suck. \u201cThey\u2019re not cosmic vacuum cleaners going around and sucking everything in,\u201d she says. \u201cThey just use gravity the same way everything else does.\u201d Instead of a cosmic drinking straw, a black hole is a place in the universe that is so massive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78969","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=78969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79019,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78969\/revisions\/79019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}