{"id":99214,"date":"2019-12-01T07:42:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T15:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/sofia-reveals-what-may-be-keeping-milky-ways-black-hole-quiet"},"modified":"2019-12-01T07:42:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T15:42:48","slug":"sofia-reveals-what-may-be-keeping-milky-ways-black-hole-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/sofia-reveals-what-may-be-keeping-milky-ways-black-hole-quiet","title":{"rendered":"SOFIA Reveals What May Be Keeping Milky Way\u2019s Black Hole Quiet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sofia-reveals-what-may-be-keeping-milky-ways-black-hole-quiet.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Supermassive black holes exist at the center of most galaxies, and our Milky Way is no exception. But many other galaxies have highly active black holes, meaning a lot of material is falling into them, emitting high-energy radiation in this \u201cfeeding\u201d process. The Milky Way\u2019s central black hole, on the other hand, is relatively quiet. New observations from NASA\u2019s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, are helping scientists understand the differences between active and quiet black holes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supermassive black holes exist at the center of most galaxies, and our Milky Way is no exception. But many other galaxies have highly active black holes, meaning a lot of material is falling into them, emitting high-energy radiation in this \u201cfeeding\u201d process. The Milky Way\u2019s central black hole, on the other hand, is relatively quiet. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99214","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=99214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}