{"id":79704,"date":"2018-06-18T16:02:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T23:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/researchers-capture-best-ever-evidence-of-rare-black-hole"},"modified":"2018-06-21T13:02:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T20:02:48","slug":"researchers-capture-best-ever-evidence-of-rare-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/researchers-capture-best-ever-evidence-of-rare-black-hole","title":{"rendered":"Researchers capture best ever evidence of rare black hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-capture-best-ever-evidence-of-rare-black-hole.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ESA\u2019s XMM-Newton observatory has discovered the best-ever candidate for a very rare and elusive type of cosmic phenomenon: a medium-weight black hole in the process of tearing apart and feasting on a nearby star.<\/p>\n<p>There are various types of black hole lurking throughout the Universe: massive stars create stellar-mass black holes when they die, while galaxies host supermassive black holes at their centres, with masses equivalent to millions or billions of Suns.<\/p>\n<p>Lying between these extremes is a more retiring member of the black hole family: intermediate-mass black holes. Thought to be seeds that will eventually grow to become supermassive, these black holes are especially elusive, and thus very few robust candidates have ever been found.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-06-capture-evidence-rare-black-hole.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;06-capture-evidence-rare-black-hole.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA\u2019s XMM-Newton observatory has discovered the best-ever candidate for a very rare and elusive type of cosmic phenomenon: a medium-weight black hole in the process of tearing apart and feasting on a nearby star. There are various types of black hole lurking throughout the Universe: massive stars create stellar-mass black holes when they die, while [\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-79704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79704","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=79704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79759,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79704\/revisions\/79759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}