{"id":223611,"date":"2025-10-18T04:12:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T09:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/truly-extraordinary-supermassive-black-hole-found-in-the-last-place-scientists-expected"},"modified":"2025-10-18T04:12:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T09:12:37","slug":"truly-extraordinary-supermassive-black-hole-found-in-the-last-place-scientists-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/truly-extraordinary-supermassive-black-hole-found-in-the-last-place-scientists-expected","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTruly Extraordinary\u201d \u2014 Supermassive Black Hole Found in the Last Place Scientists Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/truly-extraordinary-supermassive-black-hole-found-in-the-last-place-scientists-expected.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sfaradi, who led the research, is a former graduate student of Prof. Assaf Horesh. \u201cThis is one of the fascinating discoveries I\u2019ve been part of,\u201d said Prof. Horesh. \u201cThe fact that it was led by my former student, Itai, makes it even more meaningful. It\u2019s another scientific achievement that places Israel at the forefront of international astrophysics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>A black hole far from home<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Tidal disruption events occur when a star ventures too close to a massive black hole and is torn apart by its immense gravity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Sfaradi, who led the research, is a former graduate student of Prof. Assaf Horesh. \u201cThis is one of the fascinating discoveries I\u2019ve been part of,\u201d said Prof. Horesh. \u201cThe fact that it was led by my former student, Itai, makes it even more meaningful. It\u2019s another scientific achievement that places Israel at the forefront [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223611","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=223611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}