{"id":220178,"date":"2025-08-15T04:25:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/astronomers-discover-new-type-of-supernova-triggered-by-black-hole-star-interaction"},"modified":"2025-08-15T04:25:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:25:19","slug":"astronomers-discover-new-type-of-supernova-triggered-by-black-hole-star-interaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/astronomers-discover-new-type-of-supernova-triggered-by-black-hole-star-interaction","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers discover new type of supernova triggered by black hole-star interaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-discover-new-type-of-supernova-triggered-by-black-hole-star-interaction.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have discovered what may be a massive star exploding while trying to swallow a black hole companion, offering an explanation for one of the strangest stellar explosions ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery was made by a team led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard &amp; Smithsonian (CfA) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as part of the Young Supernova Experiment. The results are <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/1538-4357\/adea38\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in The Astrophysical Journal.<\/p>\n<p>The blast, named SN 2023zkd, was first discovered in July 2023 by the Zwicky Transient Facility. A new AI algorithm designed to scan for unusual explosions in real time first detected the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/explosion\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">explosion<\/a>, and that early alert allowed astronomers to begin follow-up observations immediately\u2014an essential step in capturing the full story of the explosion. By the time the explosion was over, it had been observed by a large set of telescopes, both on the ground and from space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have discovered what may be a massive star exploding while trying to swallow a black hole companion, offering an explanation for one of the strangest stellar explosions ever seen. The discovery was made by a team led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard &amp; Smithsonian (CfA) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220178","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=220178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}