{"id":215437,"date":"2025-06-05T01:26:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T06:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/biggest-boom-since-big-bang-astronomers-uncover-most-energetic-explosions-in-universe"},"modified":"2025-06-05T01:26:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T06:26:33","slug":"biggest-boom-since-big-bang-astronomers-uncover-most-energetic-explosions-in-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/biggest-boom-since-big-bang-astronomers-uncover-most-energetic-explosions-in-universe","title":{"rendered":"Biggest boom since Big Bang: Astronomers uncover most energetic explosions in universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/biggest-boom-since-big-bang-astronomers-uncover-most-energetic-explosions-in-universe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers from the University of Hawai\u02bbi\u2019s Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have discovered the most energetic cosmic explosions yet discovered, naming the new class of events \u201cextreme nuclear transients\u201d (ENTs). These extraordinary phenomena occur when massive stars\u2014at least three times heavier than our sun\u2014are torn apart after wandering too close to a supermassive black hole. Their disruption releases vast amounts of energy visible across enormous distances.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s findings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adt0074\" target=\"_blank\">appear<\/a> in the journal Science Advances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve observed stars getting ripped apart as tidal disruption events for over a decade, but these ENTs are different beasts, reaching brightnesses nearly ten times more than what we typically see,\u201d said Jason Hinkle, who led the study as the final piece of his doctoral research at IfA. \u201cNot only are ENTs far brighter than normal tidal disruption events, but they remain luminous for years, far surpassing the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/energy+output\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy output<\/a> of even the brightest known supernova explosions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers from the University of Hawai\u02bbi\u2019s Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have discovered the most energetic cosmic explosions yet discovered, naming the new class of events \u201cextreme nuclear transients\u201d (ENTs). These extraordinary phenomena occur when massive stars\u2014at least three times heavier than our sun\u2014are torn apart after wandering too close to a supermassive black hole. Their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215437","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=215437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}