{"id":12052,"date":"2022-04-12T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12052"},"modified":"2022-04-18T10:15:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T17:15:08","slug":"the-lonely-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/04\/12\/the-lonely-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lonely Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from Astronomy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Astronomers detect first potential ‘rogue’ black hole<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

We’ve seen plenty of black holes tearing material off a companion, but not sitting alone in space. Now, we might have spotted one.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Ashley Balzer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A lone black hole gives off no light – but its gravity does distort the path of light traveling around it. Ute Kraus (background Milky Way panorama: Axel Mellinger), Institute of Physics, Universit\u00e4t Hildesheim<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Each second, a brand new baby black hole is born somewhere in the cosmos as a massive star collapses under its own weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But black holes themselves are invisible. Historically, astronomers have only been able to detect these stellar-mass black holes when they are acting on a companion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, a team of scientists has made the first-ever confirmed detection of a stellar-mass black hole that\u2019s completely alone. The discovery opens up the possibility of finding even more \u2014 an exciting prospect, considering there should be around 100 million such \u201crogue\u201d black holes drifting through our galaxy unseen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from Astronomy Astronomers detect first potential ‘rogue’ black hole We’ve seen plenty of black holes tearing material off a companion, but not sitting alone in space. Now, we might have spotted one. By\u00a0Ashley Balzer Each second, a brand new baby black hole is born somewhere in the cosmos as a massive star collapses under its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}