{"id":81864,"date":"2018-08-18T20:03:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T03:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/a-supermassive-black-hole-used-its-powerful-gravity-to-rip-apart-a-star-that-wandered-too-close-to-the-massive-monster"},"modified":"2018-08-18T20:03:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T03:03:09","slug":"a-supermassive-black-hole-used-its-powerful-gravity-to-rip-apart-a-star-that-wandered-too-close-to-the-massive-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/a-supermassive-black-hole-used-its-powerful-gravity-to-rip-apart-a-star-that-wandered-too-close-to-the-massive-monster","title":{"rendered":"A supermassive black hole used its powerful gravity to rip apart a star that wandered too close to the massive monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-supermassive-black-hole-used-its-powerful-gravity-to-rip-apart-a-star-that-wandered-too-close-to-the-massive-monster.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers used radio &amp; infrared telescopes to image the distant eruption of this cosmic duel. Details: <a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgo.nasa.gov%2F2JMkZWF&h=AT3vvgaExT9BEdXLbNaBEIPo6RwF3yqc0vi9QvZRU6rEj2rpS_lrp5mOtU_KqEsiSx8dLFGbk35woGD_HwV9ojxwXnBfcUcEELS3IjDCEe-WvRHCczSh7AwZxy77deh3gNrcVCRsYJ-Gik8AZl-5lyD1B-5L-LaPbbQg2yad4gh4Xq3JH3JlzE88Zy94pmtlgaBl3K9pvIoY5toDIsdn1mViu1-dOecotOHHzb-3oKhtf62O2uVDgHuXZYKva5qd0jSs7StTEPPLVsoKKkIXwVmDtpUQEtbcHh7aSPrMsUByy6eGPp2t5UvJcMOjJ9QXU-fcJ2BI2T2oKBOiN11Gygzcx7GrusxjNJ7CCeXKjEp2-z27T1KS\" target=\"_blank\" data-ft=\"{\"tn\":\"-U\"}\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-lynx-mode=\"async\"><a href=\"https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2JMkZWF\">https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2JMkZWF<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NASA\/photos\/a.67899501771.69169.54971236771\/10156345647716772\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NASA\/photos\/a.67899501771.69169.549...5647716772<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers used radio &amp; infrared telescopes to image the distant eruption of this cosmic duel. Details: https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2JMkZWF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81864","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}