{"id":707015,"date":"2021-11-02T13:33:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T17:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=707015"},"modified":"2021-11-02T13:33:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T17:33:08","slug":"gravitational-kick-may-explain-the-strange-shape-at-the-center-of-andromeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=707015","title":{"rendered":"Gravitational &#039;kick&#039; may explain the strange shape at the center of Andromeda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When two galaxies collide, the supermassive black holes at their cores release a devastating gravitational &#8220;kick,&#8221; similar to the recoil from a shotgun. New research led by CU Boulder suggests that this kick may be so powerful it can knock millions of stars into wonky orbits.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-11-gravitational-strange-center-andromeda.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Gravitational &#8216;kick&#8217; may explain the strange shape at the center of Andromeda<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When two galaxies collide, the supermassive black holes at their cores release a devastating gravitational &#8220;kick,&#8221; similar to the recoil from a shotgun. New research led by CU Boulder suggests&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-707015","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\/707015","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=707015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707015\/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=707015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}