{"id":691160,"date":"2021-05-25T10:03:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T14:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=691160"},"modified":"2021-05-25T10:03:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T14:03:15","slug":"do-supermassive-black-holes-merge-to-form-binary-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=691160","title":{"rendered":"Do supermassive black holes merge to form binary systems?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the center of most galaxies are black holes so massive\u2014up to several billion times the mass of our sun\u2014that they have earned the descriptor &#8220;supermassive.&#8221; Compare this to your run-of-the-mill stellar-mass black hole, a measly 10 to 100 times our sun&#8217;s mass. Understanding these supermassive black holes will help astronomers understand the origin and evolution of galaxies. One open question is whether they can form binaries.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-05-supermassive-black-holes-merge-binary.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Do supermassive black holes merge to form binary systems?<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the center of most galaxies are black holes so massive\u2014up to several billion times the mass of our sun\u2014that they have earned the descriptor &#8220;supermassive.&#8221; Compare this to your&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691160","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=691160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691160\/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=691160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}