{"id":95902,"date":"2019-09-07T11:17:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T18:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=95902"},"modified":"2019-09-07T12:42:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T19:42:43","slug":"stunning-1st-image-of-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/stunning-1st-image-of-black-hole","title":{"rendered":"Stunning 1st image of Black Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><figcaption> <em>Eight of 347 scientists: Their achievement is above the fold in major newspapers <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n<p>Yesterday (Sep 5, 2019), the Breakthrough Prize Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/scientists-behind-first-black-hole-image-win-3-million-1837900989\">awarded $21.6 million US dollars<\/a> to the scientists behind a stunning achievement. They imaged a black hole. Although the image was announced and released 5 months ago, the story is still unfolding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday (Sep 5, 2019), the Breakthrough Prize Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/scientists-behind-first-black-hole-image-win-3-million-1837900989\">awarded $21.6 million US dollars<\/a> to the scientists behind a stunning achievement. They imaged a black hole. Although the image was announced and released 5 months ago, the story is still unfolding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Breakthrough Prize is funded by Russian-Israeli billionaire Yuri Milner. It is the highest-paying science prize for researchers in life science, math, and physics.<\/p><div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/stunning-1st-image-of-black-hole\">Continue reading \u201cStunning 1st image of Black Hole\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (Sep 5, 2019), the Breakthrough Prize Foundation awarded $21.6 million US dollars to the scientists behind a stunning achievement. They imaged a black hole. Although the image was announced and released 5 months ago, the story is still unfolding. Yesterday (Sep 5, 2019), the Breakthrough Prize Foundation awarded $21.6 million US dollars to the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":353,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1545,945,1807,219,224,8],"tags":[2052,3551,3491,3557,3553,3550,3552,3555,3554,3556],"class_list":["post-95902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-general-relativity","category-gravity","category-physics","category-science","category-space","tag-black-hole","tag-black-hole-photo","tag-breakthrough-prize","tag-breakthrough-prize-foundation","tag-eht","tag-eso","tag-european-southern-observatory","tag-event-horizon-telescope","tag-image-of-black-hole","tag-m87"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95902","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\/353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95902"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95908,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95902\/revisions\/95908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}