{"id":782089,"date":"2024-05-09T14:05:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T19:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=782089"},"modified":"2024-05-09T14:05:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T19:05:50","slug":"spitzer-space-telescope-captures-galactic-snack-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=782089","title":{"rendered":"Spitzer Space Telescope Captures Galactic Snack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<p>NASA-JPL\/Caltech; image processing by IPAC\/Robert Hurt<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This image, released on May 9, 2024, from NASA\u2019s retired Spitzer Space Telescope shows streams of dust flowing toward the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Andromeda Galaxy. These dust streams can help explain how black holes billions of times the mass of our Sun can satiate their big appetites but remain \u201cquiet\u201d eaters.<\/p>\n<p>Read on to learn how data from Spitzer helped shed light on how some black holes consume gas and dust.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image Credit: NASA-JPL\/Caltech<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-article\/spitzer-space-telescope-captures-galactic-snack\/?rand=772114\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA-JPL\/Caltech; image processing by IPAC\/Robert Hurt This image, released on May 9, 2024, from NASA\u2019s retired Spitzer Space Telescope shows streams of dust flowing toward the supermassive black hole at&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":782084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-NASA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782089","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=782089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/782084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=782089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=782089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=782089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}