{"id":428393,"date":"2018-01-17T09:56:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T13:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2018\/01\/180117085606.htm"},"modified":"2018-01-17T09:56:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T13:56:06","slug":"odd-behavior-of-star-reveals-lonely-black-hole-hiding-in-giant-star-cluster-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=428393","title":{"rendered":"Odd behavior of star reveals lonely black hole hiding in giant star cluster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers using ESO&#8217;s MUSE instrument on the Very Large Telescope in Chile have discovered a star in the cluster NGC 3201 that is behaving very strangely. It appears to be orbiting an invisible black hole with about four times the mass of the sun &#8212; the first such inactive stellar-mass black hole found in a globular cluster and the first found by directly detecting its gravitational pull. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers using ESO&#8217;s MUSE instrument on the Very Large Telescope in Chile have discovered a star in the cluster NGC 3201 that is behaving very strangely. It appears to be orbiting an invisible black hole with about four times the mass of the sun &#8212; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428393","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=428393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428394,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428393\/revisions\/428394"}],"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=428393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}