{"id":793562,"date":"2025-02-13T09:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T14:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=793562"},"modified":"2025-02-13T09:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T14:35:06","slug":"tiny-dwarf-galaxy-might-house-a-supermassive-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=793562","title":{"rendered":"Tiny dwarf galaxy might house a supermassive black hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">The Large Magellanic Cloud may have its own supermassive black hole<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Alan Dyer\/VWPics\/Universal Images Group via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) may be the source of nine stars zooming through our galaxy \u2013 a surprising hint that dwarf galaxies like this can host large black holes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first compelling evidence for a supermassive black hole in our nearest companion galaxy,\u201d says Jiwon Jesse Han at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts. He estimates the mass of the black hole inside the LMC would be about 60,000 times the mass of\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2468311-tiny-dwarf-galaxy-might-house-a-supermassive-black-hole\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Large Magellanic Cloud may have its own supermassive black hole Alan Dyer\/VWPics\/Universal Images Group via Getty Images A supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) may be&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":793563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793562","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=793562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/793563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=793562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=793562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=793562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}