{"id":95551,"date":"2019-08-29T20:03:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T03:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/millions-of-high-speed-black-holes-could-be-zooming-around-the-milky-way"},"modified":"2019-08-29T20:03:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T03:03:55","slug":"millions-of-high-speed-black-holes-could-be-zooming-around-the-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/millions-of-high-speed-black-holes-could-be-zooming-around-the-milky-way","title":{"rendered":"Millions of High-Speed Black Holes Could Be Zooming Around The Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P9v230MYcyk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ummmn o.o!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>How are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"black holes\">black holes<\/a> born? Astrophysicists have theories, but we don\u2019t actually know for certain. It could be massive stars quietly imploding with a <em>floompf<\/em>, or perhaps black holes are born in the explosions of colossal supernovas. New observations now indicate it might indeed be the latter.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the research suggests that those explosions are so powerful, they can kick the black holes across the galaxy at speeds greater than 70 kilometres per second (43 miles per second).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis work basically talks about the first observational evidence that you can actually see black holes moving with high velocities in the galaxy and associate it to the kick the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"black hole\">black hole<\/a> system received at birth,\u201d astronomer Pikky Atri of Curtin University and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) told ScienceAlert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ummmn o.o! How are black holes born? Astrophysicists have theories, but we don\u2019t actually know for certain. It could be massive stars quietly imploding with a floompf, or perhaps black holes are born in the explosions of colossal supernovas. New observations now indicate it might indeed be the latter. In fact, the research suggests that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95551","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}