{"id":4494,"date":"2010-11-15T17:11:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T21:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=4494"},"modified":"2010-11-15T18:28:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T22:28:05","slug":"are-black-holes-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/15\/are-black-holes-black\/","title":{"rendered":"are black holes black?&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" vspace=\"7\" height=\"62\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/black_hole.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Apparently not [<u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/11\/15\/AR2010111504192.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Scientists witness the apparent birth of a black hole<\/strong><\/a><\/u>], at least not the two shown here:<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">The theory that black holes  exist was first put forward by Albert Einstein and is now a  well-accepted fact in astronomy and cosmology. Although they define  darkness, black holes actually can be quite bright &#8211; or at least the  disc surrounding the hole and pulling matter into it. That process  creates friction and light as huge masses of swirling matter are pulled  down into what might be thought of as a kitchen drain&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently not [Scientists witness the apparent birth of a black hole], at least not the two shown here: The theory that black holes exist was first put forward by Albert Einstein and is now a well-accepted fact in astronomy and cosmology. Although they define darkness, black holes actually can be quite bright &#8211; or at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}