{"id":2576,"date":"2008-01-12T11:10:43","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T11:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/01\/12\/biggest-black-hole-evah\/"},"modified":"2008-01-12T11:10:43","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T11:10:43","slug":"biggest-black-hole-evah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/12\/biggest-black-hole-evah\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggest black hole evah&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are about 100 billion stars in our galaxy.  Imagine taking twenty percent of those stars and stuffing them into one, single black hole.  That would be one hell of a black hole.<!--more-->Well, there is such a black hole, called OJ287 (no relation to the ex foot ball star\/murderer).  It is about 3.5 billion light years away.What is interesting about OJ287 is that there is so much gravity going on here &#8230;. between this massive black hole and a smaller black hole that orbits it &#8230; that you have to measure the orbital dynamics using Einsteinian calculations, which makes it a test of one of Einstein&#8217;s theories.(It turns out Einstein was right, as usual.  What a brainy guy he was.)There are more details <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/7181877.stm\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are about 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Imagine taking twenty percent of those stars and stuffing them into one, single black hole. That would be one hell of a black hole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-Fy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}