{"id":3928568,"date":"2026-10-23T14:05:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T19:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/black-holes-spinning-near-maximum-rate-could-split-in-two-calculations-suggest\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T14:05:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T19:05:30","slug":"black-holes-spinning-near-maximum-rate-could-split-in-two-calculations-suggest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/black-holes-spinning-near-maximum-rate-could-split-in-two-calculations-suggest\/","title":{"rendered":"Black holes spinning near maximum rate could split in two, calculations suggest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Two black holes can collide and merge into one. But could the opposite happen: could a single black hole split into two smaller ones? That question is explored in a new theoretical study: &#8220;When Black Holes Admit Pair-of-pants Topologies,&#8221; published in the journal Physical Review D.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-10-black-holes-maximum.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two black holes can collide and merge into one. But could the opposite happen: could a single black hole split into two smaller ones? That question is explored in a new theoretical study: &#8220;When Black Holes Admit Pair-of-pants Topologies,&#8221; published in the journal Physical Review D. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}