{"id":203011,"date":"2025-01-03T05:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T11:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/two-luminous-flares-detected-from-a-nearby-tidal-disruption-event"},"modified":"2025-01-03T05:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T11:07:13","slug":"two-luminous-flares-detected-from-a-nearby-tidal-disruption-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/two-luminous-flares-detected-from-a-nearby-tidal-disruption-event","title":{"rendered":"Two luminous flares detected from a nearby tidal disruption event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-luminous-flares-detected-from-a-nearby-tidal-disruption-event3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A group of astronomers from numerous institutions have investigated a recently discovered nearby tidal disruption event known as ASASSN-22ci. They detected two luminous flares from this event. The finding was reported in a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2412.15326\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> Dec. 19 on the preprint server <i>arXiv<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are astronomical phenomena that occur when a star passes close enough to a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/supermassive+black+hole\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">supermassive black hole<\/a> and is pulled apart by the black hole\u2019s tidal forces, causing the process of disruption.<\/p>\n<p>Such tidally disrupted stellar debris starts raining down on the black hole and radiation emerges from the innermost region of accreting debris, which is an indicator of the presence of a TDE. All in all, the debris stream\u2013stream collision causes an energy dissipation, which may lead to the formation of an accretion disk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of astronomers from numerous institutions have investigated a recently discovered nearby tidal disruption event known as ASASSN-22ci. They detected two luminous flares from this event. The finding was reported in a paper published Dec. 19 on the preprint server arXiv. Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are astronomical phenomena that occur when a star passes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203011","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}