{"id":84513,"date":"2018-11-05T14:42:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T22:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/astronomers-once-watched-a-star-turn-directly-into-a-black-hole"},"modified":"2018-11-05T14:42:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T22:42:41","slug":"astronomers-once-watched-a-star-turn-directly-into-a-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/astronomers-once-watched-a-star-turn-directly-into-a-black-hole","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Once Watched a Star Turn Directly into a Black Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-once-watched-a-star-turn-directly-into-a-black-hole.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>History is full of forgotten heroes. Sometimes that\u2019s because somebody else got credit for their work. Sometimes it\u2019s because they were women in a male-dominated world. And sometimes it\u2019s because a couple of continents *cough* Western society *cough* decided they didn\u2019t want to include them in the history books. Meet Ibn al-Haytham \u2014 the guy who basically invented Science with a capital S.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/curiosity.com\/topics\/who-invented-the-scientific-method-youve-probably-never-heard-of-him-curiosity\/\">https:\/\/curiosity.com\/topics\/who-invented-the-scientific-met...curiosity\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History is full of forgotten heroes. Sometimes that\u2019s because somebody else got credit for their work. Sometimes it\u2019s because they were women in a male-dominated world. And sometimes it\u2019s because a couple of continents *cough* Western society *cough* decided they didn\u2019t want to include them in the history books. Meet Ibn al-Haytham \u2014 the guy [\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-84513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84513","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=84513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}