{"id":425,"date":"2020-07-25T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/?p=425"},"modified":"2020-07-25T19:51:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T19:51:23","slug":"natures-mystery-awe-blue-hole-ocean-floor-black-hole-sky-beyond-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/natures-mystery-awe-blue-hole-ocean-floor-black-hole-sky-beyond-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery, Nature&#8217;s Awe. Blue hole, under ocean? Black hole, sky above sky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldculturepictorial.com\/images\/content_6\/blue-hole-ocean-floor.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>(quote)<br><br>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/scientists-investigate-blue-oceanic-mystery-off-florida-coast\/story?id=71919756\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scientists are flocking to Florida\u2019s Gulf Coast for a glimpse of a mysterious 425-feet-deep &#8220;blue hole&#8221; on the ocean floor.<\/a><br><br>\n\nThe first reports of blue holes came from fishermen and recreational divers, not scientists or researchers. In general, the holes appear to host diverse biological communities full of marine life, including corals, sponges, mollusks, sea turtles and sharks.<br><br>\n\nThe glowing mystery hole, about 155 feet below the water\u2019s surface, is similar to the sinkholes seen on solid land, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.<br><br>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/black-hole\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black holes are formed when massive stars die. The intense gravitational force that they exert allows nothing to escape.<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldculturepictorial.com\/images\/content_6\/black-hole-event-horizon-telescope.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Black hole at the centre of the massive galaxy M87, about 55 million light-years from Earth, as imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). The black hole is 6.5 billion times more massive than the Sun.<br><br>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-xl\/finance\/tech-and-science\/mysterious-force-destroys-monster-black-holes-ring-of-plasma\/ar-BB17azSu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mysterious force destroys monster black hole&#8217;s ring of plasma<\/a><br>\nTelescopes all over the world watched a bright flash appear around a distant, supermassive black hole. And then, very quickly, it was gone.<br><br>\n\nIn March 2018, this black hole&#8217;s corona briefly shined extra bright, a 40-fold increase in brightness. After the AGN lit up, it dimmed suddenly. The black hole at its center \u2014 which can be seen best using X-ray telescopes \u2014 seemed to get 10,000 times less bright in less than a year.<br><br>\n\n(unquote)<br><br>\n\nPhoto courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/scientists-investigate-blue-oceanic-mystery-off-florida-coast\/story?id=71919756\">Mote Marine Laboratory via NOAA<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/black-hole\">Event Horizon Telescope<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(quote) Scientists are flocking to Florida\u2019s Gulf Coast for a glimpse of a mysterious 425-feet-deep &#8220;blue hole&#8221; on the ocean floor. The first reports of blue holes came from fishermen and recreational divers, not scientists or researchers. In general, the holes appear to host diverse biological communities full of marine<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/natures-mystery-awe-blue-hole-ocean-floor-black-hole-sky-beyond-sky\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,11,12],"tags":[26,27,50,39,35,64,31,33,34],"class_list":["entry","author-wcp-scientific-mind","post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-figures-and-facts","category-life-nature-society","category-science-and-technology","category-us-and-world","tag-facts","tag-figures","tag-image","tag-nature","tag-news","tag-photo","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-exploration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}