{"id":90123,"date":"2019-04-29T21:23:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T04:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/astronomers-spot-distant-black-hole-spinning-so-fast-that-it-warps-space-time"},"modified":"2019-04-29T21:23:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T04:23:13","slug":"astronomers-spot-distant-black-hole-spinning-so-fast-that-it-warps-space-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/astronomers-spot-distant-black-hole-spinning-so-fast-that-it-warps-space-time","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Spot Distant Black Hole Spinning So Fast That It Warps Space-Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fCWteTkhd_A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last observed in 2015, the black hole is spewing out \u2018wobbly\u2019 plasma jets that move so fast they change orientation within minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Some 8,000 light-years from Earth in the Cygnus constellation (\u201cThe Swan\u201d), a small black hole weighing just nine times the mass of Earth\u2019s sun is gobbling up a sun-like star. The black hole and its stellar victim are locked together in what astronomers call a binary system and orbit each other once every 6.5 days \u2013 with spectacular effects, the <a href=\"https:\/\/public.nrao.edu\/news\/black-hole-jets-rapid-wobble\/\">National Radio Astronomy Observatory<\/a> (NRAO) is reporting.<\/p>\n<p>While the black hole may be relatively tiny as far as these celestial objects go \u2013 for instance, the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*, is 4 million times more massive than the sun, per a previous report from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/5140587\/mind-boggling-observations-confirm-that-the-milky-way-has-a-black-heart\/\">The Inquisitr<\/a><\/em> \u2013 it does pack a pretty mean punch. Dubbed V404 Cygni, the black hole is continuously siphoning material from its stellar companion, slowly consuming the unfortunate star.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/5415166\/black-hole-warping-space-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last observed in 2015, the black hole is spewing out \u2018wobbly\u2019 plasma jets that move so fast they change orientation within minutes. Some 8,000 light-years from Earth in the Cygnus constellation (\u201cThe Swan\u201d), a small black hole weighing just nine times the mass of Earth\u2019s sun is gobbling up a sun-like star. The black hole [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90123","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=90123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}