{"id":171855,"date":"2023-09-12T10:23:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T15:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/black-holes-burp-years-after-shredding-stars-and-we-dont-know-why"},"modified":"2023-09-12T10:23:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T15:23:54","slug":"black-holes-burp-years-after-shredding-stars-and-we-dont-know-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/black-holes-burp-years-after-shredding-stars-and-we-dont-know-why","title":{"rendered":"Black Holes \u2018Burp\u2019 Years After Shredding Stars, And We Don\u2019t Know Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oeLtEOjdVIU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For a few hours after a star smashes into a supermassive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">black hole<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astronomy.com\/science\/how-do-black-holes-swallow-stars\/\">some of the brightest light<\/a> in the Universe is produced.<\/p>\n<p>The subsequent flash of radio waves were thought to simmer down within <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/space\/black-hole-burp-tidal-disruption-event-delay\/\">weeks or months<\/a> of a collision. It turns out we might have been a little impatient to turn our gaze elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>An international team of astrophysicists has witnessed radio waves bursting from material surrounding an assortment of supermassive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">black holes<\/a> hundreds of days after they ripped apart a star, suggesting many collisions could be responsible for a serious case of cosmic indigestion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a few hours after a star smashes into a supermassive black hole, some of the brightest light in the Universe is produced. The subsequent flash of radio waves were thought to simmer down within weeks or months of a collision. It turns out we might have been a little impatient to turn our gaze [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171855","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\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}