{"id":5256,"date":"2012-05-04T11:26:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T01:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=5256"},"modified":"2012-05-15T10:53:54","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T00:53:54","slug":"black-hole-caught-committing-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/video\/black-hole-caught-committing-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Black hole caught committing murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Most homicide cases involve finding the murderer, but this is the first time NASA have been able to identify a stellar homicide victim.<!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Black holes lurk quietly in the centre of most galaxies, shredding unsuspecting stars that get too close. This time the crime took place 2.7 billion lights years away, with a black hole ripping apart a star that was identified to be rich in helium gas.<\/p>\n<p>NASA scientists also suspect that this was not the first time the star had a brush with a black hole. Lead researcher Suvi Gezari, from the John Hopkins University in the US, think that the hydrogen-filled envelope surrounding the star&#8217;s core was removed a long time ago by the same black hole.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/galex\/galex20120502.html\">NASA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Most homicide cases involve finding the murderer, but this is the first time NASA have been able to identify a stellar homicide victim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":5299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,27,10],"tags":[283,72,155,205],"class_list":["post-5256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nasa","category-space","category-video","tag-black-hole","tag-nasa-2","tag-space-2","tag-video-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5256"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5529,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256\/revisions\/5529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}