{"id":1170,"date":"2023-10-12T15:11:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T14:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoscience.org\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2023-10-12T15:11:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T14:11:20","slug":"black-holes-closer-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/2023\/10\/12\/black-holes-closer-to-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Holes Closer to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Space Sciences<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Date : Sept. , 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source : Science Alert<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"415\" src=\"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/BlackHoleAmongStars.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/BlackHoleAmongStars.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theoscience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/BlackHoleAmongStars-300x122.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theoscience.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/BlackHoleAmongStars-768x311.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Somewhere out there, lurking in the corners of the galaxy, an estimated 10 million to 1 billion stellar mass black holes are thought to hang out, dark and mysterious.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>As closed as 150 light-years away,  in the constellation of Taurus, a team of astronomers has found that there could be two or three stellar mass black holes hiding therein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes-may-lurk-much-closer-to-earth-than-we-realized\">Science Alert Article<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the original article in the <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/mnras\/article-abstract\/524\/2\/1965\/7210551\">Royal Astronomical Society<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space Sciences Date : Sept. , 2023 Source : Science Alert Somewhere out there, lurking in the corners of the galaxy, an estimated 10 million to 1 billion stellar mass black holes are thought to hang out, dark and mysterious. As closed as 150 light-years away, in the constellation of Taurus, a team of astronomers &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/2023\/10\/12\/black-holes-closer-to-earth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black Holes Closer to Earth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-sciences","tag-black-holes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/1172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoscience.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}