{"id":215632,"date":"2025-06-08T18:04:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T23:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/astronomers-simulate-a-stars-final-moments-as-its-swallowed-by-a-black-hole-breaks-like-an-egg"},"modified":"2025-06-08T18:04:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T23:04:31","slug":"astronomers-simulate-a-stars-final-moments-as-its-swallowed-by-a-black-hole-breaks-like-an-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/astronomers-simulate-a-stars-final-moments-as-its-swallowed-by-a-black-hole-breaks-like-an-egg","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers simulate a star\u2019s final moments as it\u2019s swallowed by a black hole: \u2018Breaks like an egg\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-simulate-a-stars-final-moments-as-its-swallowed-by-a-black-hole-breaks-like-an-egg.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The universe is full of spectacular and violent events, but few are more dramatic than a black hole tearing apart a star. Now, thanks to advanced computer simulations, scientists have gotten their closest look yet at what this cosmic catastrophe might actually look \u2014 and even sound \u2014 like.<\/p>\n<p>A team of astronomers, led by theoretical astrophysicist Elias Most of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), modeled the dramatic final milliseconds before a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/22180-neutron-stars.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/22180-neutron-stars.html\">neutron star<\/a>, the incredibly dense core left behind by a massive stellar explosion, is devoured by a black hole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The universe is full of spectacular and violent events, but few are more dramatic than a black hole tearing apart a star. Now, thanks to advanced computer simulations, scientists have gotten their closest look yet at what this cosmic catastrophe might actually look \u2014 and even sound \u2014 like. A team of astronomers, led by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215632","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}