{"id":57718,"date":"2017-05-26T00:42:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T07:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/astronomers-witness-stars-death-birth-of-new-black-hole"},"modified":"2017-05-26T00:42:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T07:42:32","slug":"astronomers-witness-stars-death-birth-of-new-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/astronomers-witness-stars-death-birth-of-new-black-hole","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers witness star\u2019s death, birth of new black hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bL1sQjNsuws?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>May 25 (UPI) \u2014 In 2015, a star tracked by astronomers since 2009, suddenly disappeared. New research suggests the star collapsed and became a black hole, but avoided the explosive violence of a supernova.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery, detailed in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, could explain why many of the universe\u2019s most massive stars die without a parting explosion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe typical view is that a star can form a black hole only after it goes supernova,\u201d Christopher Kochanek, professor of astronomy at Ohio State University, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2017\/collapsing-star-gives-birth-to-a-black-hole\" target=\"_blank\">said in a news release<\/a>. \u201cIf a star can fall short of a supernova and still make a black hole, that would help to explain why we don\u2019t see supernovae from the most massive stars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2017\/05\/25\/Astronomers-witness-stars-death-birth-of-new-black-hole\/5811495736267\/?utm_source=fp&utm_campaign=ls&utm_medium=5\">http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2017\/05\/25\/Astronomers-witne...m_medium=5<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 25 (UPI) \u2014 In 2015, a star tracked by astronomers since 2009, suddenly disappeared. New research suggests the star collapsed and became a black hole, but avoided the explosive violence of a supernova. The discovery, detailed in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, could explain why many of the universe\u2019s most massive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57718","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}