{"id":90166,"date":"2019-05-01T08:22:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T15:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/astronomers-discover-extraordinary-black-hole-that-is-warping-space-time"},"modified":"2019-05-01T08:22:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T15:22:14","slug":"astronomers-discover-extraordinary-black-hole-that-is-warping-space-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/astronomers-discover-extraordinary-black-hole-that-is-warping-space-time","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Discover \u2018Extraordinary\u2019 Black Hole That Is Warping Space-Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-discover-extraordinary-black-hole-that-is-warping-space-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 8,000 light-years away from Earth, astronomers have discovered a black hole that keeps rapidly swinging out jets of plasma clouds into space, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>The black hole, known as V404 Cygni, doesn\u2019t behave like others. The jets shoot out possibly within minutes of each other and in all different directions. And while the researchers admit that black holes are some of the most extreme objects in the universe, this one is different.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one of the most extraordinary black hole systems I\u2019ve ever come across,\u201d study author James Miller-Jones said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icrar.org\/Cygni\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a>. Miller-Jones is also an associate professor at Curtin University\u2019s International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/2019\/04\/30\/astronomers-discover-extraordinary-black-hole-that-is-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>Nearly 8,000 light-years away from Earth, astronomers have discovered a black hole that keeps rapidly swinging out jets of plasma clouds into space, according to a new study. The black hole, known as V404 Cygni, doesn\u2019t behave like others. The jets shoot out possibly within minutes of each other and in all different directions. And [\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-90166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90166","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=90166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}