{"id":287179,"date":"2017-03-14T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T19:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=ead72dc75546dd98f9be07130637e3a0"},"modified":"2017-03-14T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T19:19:00","slug":"scientists-catch-star-and-possible-black-hole-in-a-rapid-dangerous-dance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=287179","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Catch Star And Possible Black Hole In A Rapid, Dangerous Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/03\/14\/star-black-hole_wide-05ab84b69419aaf91d08acf5ce620f5603b310cf.jpg?s=600' alt='An artist's impression of a white dwarf in an extremely close orbit around what's believed to be a black hole. The star is so close that much of its material is being pulled away.'\/><\/p>\n<p>The white dwarf is whizzing around what researchers think is a black hole at an extraordinary speed \u2014 at least twice an hour. It is believed to be a star&#8217;s closest known orbit to a black hole.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: X-ray: NASA\/CXC\/University of Alberta\/A.Bahramian et al.; Illustration: NASA\/CXC\/M.Weiss)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=520032060' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The white dwarf is whizzing around what researchers think is a black hole at an extraordinary speed &mdash; at least twice an hour. It is believed to be a star&#8217;s closest known orbit to a black hole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287180,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287179\/revisions\/287180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}