{"id":86576,"date":"2019-01-10T10:43:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T18:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/hungry-black-hole-shines-light-on-astronomical-phenomenon"},"modified":"2019-01-10T10:43:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T18:43:01","slug":"hungry-black-hole-shines-light-on-astronomical-phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/hungry-black-hole-shines-light-on-astronomical-phenomenon","title":{"rendered":"Hungry Black Hole Shines Light on Astronomical Phenomenon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hungry-black-hole-shines-light-on-astronomical-phenomenon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2019\/astronomers-black-hole-stellar-0109\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have been watching<\/a> a very hungry black hole devour the gases of a nearby star for almost a year.<\/p>\n<p>A specialized instrument aboard the International Space Station in March detected an enormous explosion of X-ray light nearly 10,000 light years from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The source: a black hole called MAXI J1820+070, caught in an outburst, spewing surges of X-ray energy as it devours inhales celestial dust and gas.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/hungry-black-hole-shines-light-on-astronomical-phenomenon-1769243\/\">https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/hungry-black-hole-shines-light-on-...n-1769243\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have been watching a very hungry black hole devour the gases of a nearby star for almost a year. A specialized instrument aboard the International Space Station in March detected an enormous explosion of X-ray light nearly 10,000 light years from Earth. The source: a black hole called MAXI J1820+070, caught in an outburst, [\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-86576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86576","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=86576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}