{"id":52101,"date":"2022-01-18T03:59:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T03:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurn.org\/tentaclii\/?p=52101"},"modified":"2022-01-18T03:59:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T03:59:05","slug":"lovecraft-was-right-part-473","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/01\/18\/lovecraft-was-right-part-473\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft was right, part 473"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I have seen the dark universe yawning,<br \/>\nWhere the black planets roll without aim;<br \/>\nWhere they roll in their horror unheeded,<br \/>\nwithout knowledge or lustre or name.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; from &#8220;Nemesis&#8221; by H.P. Lovecraft.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Astronomers have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41550-021-01513-x\">used new techniques<\/a> to detect about 100 &#8216;dark&#8217; planets moving madly through space rather than orbiting their home star, just as Lovecraft imagined. A rigorous examination of observation data has now given a new catalogue of 70-170 of these. The researchers conclude that there are so many of these in the observed area that&#8230; &#8220;planets formed around stars and then banished to the blackness must be an important contribution&#8221; to their number. It then follows, as they suggest, that billions of unknown sun-less &#8216;black planets&#8217; must roll through the cold wastes between the stars.<\/p>\n<p>Other research has discovered &#8216;untethered black holes&#8217;, which have no black disk of matter pulled in around them &mdash; but can still be detected by the bending of light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have seen the dark universe yawning, Where the black planets roll without aim; Where they roll in their horror &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/01\/18\/lovecraft-was-right-part-473\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}