{"id":667327,"date":"2026-10-28T00:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T00:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/667327\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T00:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T00:50:09","slug":"an-earth-sized-radio-telescope-watched-the-first-known-black-hole-and-its-jets-pack-the-power-of-10000-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/667327\/","title":{"rendered":"An Earth-sized radio telescope watched the first known black hole, and its jets pack the power of 10,000 suns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tAn Earth-sized radio telescope watched the first known black hole, and its jets pack the power of 10,000 suns &#8211; Futura-Sciences<\/p>\n<p>October 27, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            5 min    <\/p>\n<p>            <img width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/cygnus_X1_jets_ICRAR.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"cygnus_X1_jets_ICRAR\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><br \/>\n                    Illustration of the Cygnus X-1 binary system, showing how the wind from the supergiant star deflects the jets from the black hole, while the two objects move around each other in their respective orbits. \u00a9 International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR)<\/p>\n<p>\n            See also\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Earth-sized radio telescope watched the first known black hole, and its jets pack the power of 10,000&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247,163910],"class_list":["post-667327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}