{"id":654268,"date":"2020-05-06T14:05:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T18:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=654268"},"modified":"2020-05-06T14:05:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T18:05:22","slug":"scientists-find-nearest-known-black-hole-in-distressingly-fitting-metaphor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=654268","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Find Nearest-Known Black Hole, In Distressingly Fitting Metaphor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/eso2007a_wide-7b434784866fa8996aae01c2bf2fd1490f1cb185.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The black hole is roughly 1,000 light-years from Earth \u2014 and more than 2,000 light-years closer than the next one known. What&#8217;s more, scientists say, it may be just &#8220;the tip of an exciting iceberg.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: ESO\/L. Cal\u00e7ada)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/npr-rss-pixel-4.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/05\/06\/851246887\/scientists-find-nearest-known-black-hole-in-distressingly-fitting-metaphor?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scientists Find Nearest-Known Black Hole, In Distressingly Fitting Metaphor<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The black hole is roughly 1,000 light-years from Earth \u2014 and more than 2,000 light-years closer than the next one known. What&#8217;s more, scientists say, it may be just &#8220;the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654268","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=654268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654268\/revisions"}],"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=654268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=654268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=654268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}