{"id":127371,"date":"2021-09-07T10:24:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T17:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/a-black-hole-triggers-a-premature-supernova-first-observation-of-a-brand-new-kind-of-supernova"},"modified":"2021-09-07T10:24:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T17:24:19","slug":"a-black-hole-triggers-a-premature-supernova-first-observation-of-a-brand-new-kind-of-supernova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/a-black-hole-triggers-a-premature-supernova-first-observation-of-a-brand-new-kind-of-supernova","title":{"rendered":"A Black Hole Triggers a Premature Supernova \u2014 First Observation of a Brand-New Kind of Supernova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-black-hole-triggers-a-premature-supernova-first-observation-of-a-brand-new-kind-of-supernova.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The first observation of a brand-new kind of supernova had been predicted by theorists but never before confirmed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2,017 a particularly luminous and unusual source of radio waves was discovered in data taken by the Very Large Array (VLA) Sky Survey, a project that scans the night sky in radio wavelengths. Now, led by Caltech graduate student Dillon Dong (MS \u201918), a team of astronomers has established that the bright radio flare was caused by a black hole or neutron star crashing into its companion star in a never-before-seen process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMassive stars usually explode as supernovae when they run out of nuclear fuel,\u201d says Gregg Hallinan, professor of astronomy at Caltech. \u201cBut in this case, an invading black hole or neutron star has prematurely triggered its companion star to explode.\u201d This is the first time a merger-triggered supernova has ever been confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first observation of a brand-new kind of supernova had been predicted by theorists but never before confirmed. In 2,017 a particularly luminous and unusual source of radio waves was discovered in data taken by the Very Large Array (VLA) Sky Survey, a project that scans the night sky in radio wavelengths. Now, led by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}