{"id":96718,"date":"2019-09-26T23:23:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T06:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/lucky-observation-scientists-watch-a-black-hole-shredding-a-star"},"modified":"2019-09-26T23:23:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T06:23:22","slug":"lucky-observation-scientists-watch-a-black-hole-shredding-a-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/lucky-observation-scientists-watch-a-black-hole-shredding-a-star","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lucky\u2019 observation: Scientists watch a black hole shredding a star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/85tdoDt1Qh0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A NASA satellite searching space for new planets gave astronomers an unexpected glimpse at a black hole ripping a star to shreds.<\/p>\n<p>It is one of the most detailed looks yet at the phenomenon, called a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/tidal+disruption\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">tidal disruption<\/a> event (or TDE), and the first for NASA\u2019s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (more commonly called TESS.) <\/p>\n<p>The milestone was reached with the help of a worldwide network of robotic telescopes headquartered at The Ohio State University called ASAS-SN (All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae). Astronomers from the Carnegie Observatories, Ohio State and others published their findings today in The Astrophysical Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A NASA satellite searching space for new planets gave astronomers an unexpected glimpse at a black hole ripping a star to shreds. It is one of the most detailed looks yet at the phenomenon, called a tidal disruption event (or TDE), and the first for NASA\u2019s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (more commonly called TESS.) The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96718","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=96718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}