{"id":6249,"date":"2019-04-19T10:27:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T14:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=6249"},"modified":"2019-04-19T10:27:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T14:27:07","slug":"bu-astronomers-stare-into-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2019\/04\/19\/bu-astronomers-stare-into-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"BU Astronomers Stare into Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/core\/files\/2019\/04\/black-hole.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/core\/files\/2019\/04\/black-hole-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"black hole\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2019\/04\/black-hole-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2019\/04\/black-hole-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2019\/04\/black-hole.jpg 995w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week, a team of astronomers announced that they had captured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/10\/science\/black-hole-picture.html\">the first-ever image of a black hole in space.<\/a> While this discovery is amazing for a myriad of reasons, we can personally take pride in knowing that some Core DNA went into this amazing discovery. As Core alum Peter La Fountain pointed out, Core Curriculum professor and BU Astronomer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/blazars\/AlanMarscher.html\">Alan Marscher<\/a> was one of the 200 scientists on the black hole team. La Fountain continued to say that &#8220;Research doesn&#8217;t come out of a&#8230; black hole&#8230; it comes from prioritizing resources to advance public knowledge.&#8221; We couldn&#8217;t agree more!<\/p>\n<p>While we&#8217;re on the topic of black holes, please enjoy some Jukebox the Ghost!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GoUBSlTetTo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, a team of astronomers announced that they had captured the first-ever image of a black hole in space. While this discovery is amazing for a myriad of reasons, we can personally take pride in knowing that some Core DNA went into this amazing discovery. As Core alum Peter La Fountain pointed out, Core [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[898,556,477],"tags":[427,48619,426],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6253,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249\/revisions\/6253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}