{"id":96108,"date":"2019-09-11T22:03:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T05:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/black-hole-at-the-center-of-our-galaxy-appears-to-be-getting-hungrier"},"modified":"2019-09-11T22:03:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T05:03:35","slug":"black-hole-at-the-center-of-our-galaxy-appears-to-be-getting-hungrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/black-hole-at-the-center-of-our-galaxy-appears-to-be-getting-hungrier","title":{"rendered":"Black hole at the center of our galaxy appears to be getting hungrier"},"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\/lTeNrUJZxOU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The enormous black hole at the center of our galaxy is having an unusually large meal of interstellar gas and dust, and researchers don\u2019t yet understand why.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have never seen anything like this in the 24 years we have studied the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/supermassive+black+hole\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">supermassive black hole<\/a>,\u201d said Andrea Ghez, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy and a co-senior author of the research. \u201cIt\u2019s usually a pretty quiet, wimpy black hole on a diet. We don\u2019t know what is driving this big feast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A paper about the study, led by the UCLA Galactic Center Group, which Ghez heads, is published today in Astrophysical Journal Letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The enormous black hole at the center of our galaxy is having an unusually large meal of interstellar gas and dust, and researchers don\u2019t yet understand why. \u201cWe have never seen anything like this in the 24 years we have studied the supermassive black hole,\u201d said Andrea Ghez, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96108","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}