{"id":537460,"date":"2018-10-22T08:31:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T12:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=9499efb498a74ee521e4d0dad54e6bc5"},"modified":"2018-10-22T08:31:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T12:31:08","slug":"astronomers-propose-a-new-method-for-detecting-black-holes-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=537460","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers propose a new method for detecting black holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A stellar mass black hole is a compact object with a mass greater than three solar masses. It is so dense and has such a powerful force of attraction that not even light can escape from it. They cannot be observed directly, but only via secondary effects\u2014for instance, in the case of a black hole feeding on a companion star. In general, when matter falls onto a black hole it does so &#8220;quietly&#8221; by way of an accretion disc. However, there are periods when this infall is violent and bursts, producing a strong outburst of X-ray brightness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stellar mass black hole is a compact object with a mass greater than three solar masses. It is so dense and has such a powerful force of attraction that not even light can escape from it. They cannot be observed directly, but only via secondary effects&mdash;for instance, in the case of a black hole feeding on a companion star. In general, when matter falls onto a black hole it does so &#8220;quietly&#8221; by way of an accretion disc. However, there are periods when this infall is violent and bursts, producing a strong outburst of X-ray brightness.<\/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-537460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537460","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=537460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537461,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537460\/revisions\/537461"}],"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=537460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=537460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=537460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}