{"id":89385,"date":"2019-04-10T06:24:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T13:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/scientists-have-obtained-the-first-image-of-a-black-hole-using-event-horizon-telescope-observations-of-the-center-of-the-galaxy-m87"},"modified":"2019-04-10T06:24:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T13:24:01","slug":"scientists-have-obtained-the-first-image-of-a-black-hole-using-event-horizon-telescope-observations-of-the-center-of-the-galaxy-m87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/scientists-have-obtained-the-first-image-of-a-black-hole-using-event-horizon-telescope-observations-of-the-center-of-the-galaxy-m87","title":{"rendered":"Scientists have obtained the first image of a black hole, using Event Horizon Telescope observations of the center of the galaxy M87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-obtained-the-first-image-of-a-black-hole-using-event-horizon-telescope-observations-of-the-center-of-the-galaxy-m872.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The image shows a bright ring formed as light bends in the intense gravity around a black hole that is 6.5 billion times more massive than the Sun <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ehtelescope\/status\/1115964692802019328\/photo\/1\" class=\"\" data-pre-embedded=\"true\" dir=\"ltr\" ><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ehtelescope\/status\/1115964692802019328?s=12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The image shows a bright ring formed as light bends in the intense gravity around a black hole that is 6.5 billion times more massive than the Sun Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89385","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}