{"id":155655,"date":"2023-01-17T12:26:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T18:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/a-black-hole-devoured-a-star-and-created-a-solar-system-sized-donut"},"modified":"2023-01-17T12:26:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T18:26:27","slug":"a-black-hole-devoured-a-star-and-created-a-solar-system-sized-donut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/a-black-hole-devoured-a-star-and-created-a-solar-system-sized-donut","title":{"rendered":"A black hole devoured a star and created a Solar System-sized donut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-black-hole-devoured-a-star-and-created-a-solar-system-sized-donut2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Hubble Space Telescope readings show the last moments of a star before it\u2019s devoured by a black hole.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers used NASA\u2019s iconic Hubble Space Telescope to record detailed observations of a star\u2019s final moments before it was torn apart by a black hole.<\/p>\n<p>As per a NASA blog post, the astronomers used Hubble to focus on the immense gravitational impact on the dying star.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA, ESA, Leah Hustak (STScI) <\/p>\n<p>The violent encounter, also known as a \u201ctidal disruption event,\u201d both pulls in material from the star and also shoots radiation out into the cosmos. In the process, a massive donut-shaped gas cloud is formed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Hubble Space Telescope readings show the last moments of a star before it\u2019s devoured by a black hole. Astronomers used NASA\u2019s iconic Hubble Space Telescope to record detailed observations of a star\u2019s final moments before it was torn apart by a black hole. As per a NASA blog post, the astronomers used Hubble to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155655","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}