{"id":216782,"date":"2025-06-28T10:11:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T15:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/star-shredding-spectacle-nasa-reveals-brightest-black-hole-blasts-since-the-big-bang"},"modified":"2025-06-28T10:11:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T15:11:20","slug":"star-shredding-spectacle-nasa-reveals-brightest-black-hole-blasts-since-the-big-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/star-shredding-spectacle-nasa-reveals-brightest-black-hole-blasts-since-the-big-bang","title":{"rendered":"Star-Shredding Spectacle: NASA Reveals Brightest Black Hole Blasts Since the Big Bang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/star-shredding-spectacle-nasa-reveals-brightest-black-hole-blasts-since-the-big-bang.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts brighter than 100 supernovae. By mixing NASA, ESA, and ground-based data, astronomers caught three of these rare \u201cextreme nuclear transients,\u201d including the cheekily named \u201cBarbie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts brighter than 100 supernovae. By mixing NASA, ESA, and ground-based data, astronomers caught three of these rare \u201cextreme nuclear transients,\u201d including the cheekily named \u201cBarbie<\/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-216782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216782","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=216782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}