{"id":2165,"date":"2005-01-09T16:39:13","date_gmt":"2005-01-09T20:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2005\/01\/09\/\/"},"modified":"2005-01-09T16:39:13","modified_gmt":"2005-01-09T20:39:13","slug":"2165","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2005\/01\/2165\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&amp;articleID=00076736-6EC5-11DC-AEC583414B7F0000\" rel=\"external\"><strong>Voracious Black Hole Generates Most Powerful Explosion Known<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/black-hole.jpg\" alt=\"supermassive black hole\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><strong>&#8220;Astronomers have discovered the largest explosion in the universe&#8211;one that has endured for more than 100 million years and generated as much energy as hundreds of millions of gamma-ray bursts. The source of this mayhem? An apparently insatiable supermassive black hole.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;jets of energy emanating from the black hole, which itself may be a billion times the mass of our sun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The discovery is unexpected not only because of its record-breaking nature, but because previous work suggested that large black holes don&#8217;t consume as much matter or grow as quickly as small ones do. &#8220;This new result is as surprising as it is exciting,&#8221; comments co-author Paul Nulsen of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. &#8220;This black hole is feasting when it should be fasting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This will no doubt raise some more scary questions about the <a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap021018.html\" rel=\"external\">supermassive black hole in our milky way<\/a>&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voracious Black Hole Generates Most Powerful Explosion Known &#8220;Astronomers have discovered the largest explosion in the universe&#8211;one that has endured for more than 100 million years and generated as much energy as hundreds of millions of gamma-ray bursts. The source of this mayhem? An apparently insatiable supermassive black hole.&#8221; &#8220;&#8230;jets of energy emanating from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}