{"id":453351,"date":"2018-03-16T11:10:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T15:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=f42ab2f233e02236553500d20105f764"},"modified":"2018-03-16T11:10:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T15:10:01","slug":"black-holes-arent-totally-black-and-other-insights-from-stephen-hawkings-groundbreaking-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=453351","title":{"rendered":"Black holes aren&#8217;t totally black, and other insights from Stephen Hawking&#8217;s groundbreaking work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking was best known for his work exploring the relationship between black holes and quantum physics. A black hole is the remnant of a dying supermassive star that&#8217;s fallen into itself; these remnants contract to such a small size that gravity is so strong even light cannot escape from them. Black holes loom large in the popular imagination \u2013 schoolchildren ponder why the whole universe doesn&#8217;t collapse into one. But Hawking&#8217;s careful theoretical work filled in some of the holes in physicists&#8217; knowledge about black holes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking was best known for his work exploring the relationship between black holes and quantum physics. A black hole is the remnant of a dying supermassive star that&#8217;s fallen into itself; these remnants contract to such a small size that gravity is so strong even light cannot escape from them. Black holes loom large in the popular imagination &ndash; schoolchildren ponder why the whole universe doesn&#8217;t collapse into one. But Hawking&#8217;s careful theoretical work filled in some of the holes in physicists&#8217; knowledge about black holes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453351","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=453351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453352,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453351\/revisions\/453352"}],"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=453351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=453351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=453351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}