{"id":171537,"date":"2023-09-07T13:27:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T18:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hungry-black-hole-regularly-eats-planet-sized-chunks-of-star"},"modified":"2023-09-07T13:27:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T18:27:19","slug":"hungry-black-hole-regularly-eats-planet-sized-chunks-of-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hungry-black-hole-regularly-eats-planet-sized-chunks-of-star","title":{"rendered":"Hungry black hole regularly eats planet-sized chunks of star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hungry-black-hole-regularly-eats-planet-sized-chunks-of-star2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New observations made with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory provide a \u201cmissing link\u201d in our knowledge of black hole and star interactions.<\/p>\n<p>A Sun-like star in a galaxy near ours is slowly being eaten by a relatively small black hole.<\/p>\n<p>Though it\u2019s small for a black hole, it is extremely active and devours the equivalent mass of three Earths every time the star passes close by, a press statement reveals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New observations made with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory provide a \u201cmissing link\u201d in our knowledge of black hole and star interactions. A Sun-like star in a galaxy near ours is slowly being eaten by a relatively small black hole. Though it\u2019s small for a black hole, it is extremely active and devours the equivalent [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171537","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=171537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}