{"id":157791,"date":"2023-02-12T08:23:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T14:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/a-hungry-black-hole-is-converting-a-star-into-a-cosmic-doughnut-and-a-stellar-taffy-at-the-same-time"},"modified":"2023-02-12T08:23:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T14:23:02","slug":"a-hungry-black-hole-is-converting-a-star-into-a-cosmic-doughnut-and-a-stellar-taffy-at-the-same-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/a-hungry-black-hole-is-converting-a-star-into-a-cosmic-doughnut-and-a-stellar-taffy-at-the-same-time","title":{"rendered":"A hungry black hole is converting a star into a cosmic doughnut and a stellar taffy at the same time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-hungry-black-hole-is-converting-a-star-into-a-cosmic-doughnut-and-a-stellar-taffy-at-the-same-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img style=\"display:inline; margin: 0; margin-right: 8px;\" alt=\"Ali Beatriz\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/905b32c17919b21c7edc971f59793ada?s=96&d=mm&r=g\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">Ali Beatriz <img style=\"display:inline; margin: 0; margin-right: 8px;\" alt=\"Ali Beatriz\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/905b32c17919b21c7edc971f59793ada?s=96&d=mm&r=g\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">Ali BeatrizPosted January 14, 2023 under Astronomy.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have discovered a monstrous black hole with an appetite and a sweet tooth. The black hole is ripping apart an unfortunate star, stretching it like taffy and shaping the \u201cleftovers\u201d into a stellar donut the size of the solar system before feasting on this cosmic confectionary.<\/p>\n<p>The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN or \u201cAssassin\u201d) first spotted the violent incident, referred to as a tidal disruption event (TDE), via a flash of high-energy radiation. The feast is taking place at the heart of a galaxy 300 million light-years away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ali Beatriz Ali BeatrizPosted January 14, 2023 under Astronomy. Astronomers have discovered a monstrous black hole with an appetite and a sweet tooth. The black hole is ripping apart an unfortunate star, stretching it like taffy and shaping the \u201cleftovers\u201d into a stellar donut the size of the solar system before feasting on this cosmic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157791","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}