{"id":11497,"date":"2021-06-29T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11497"},"modified":"2021-07-20T14:48:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T21:48:41","slug":"cosmic-cannibals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/06\/29\/cosmic-cannibals\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Cannibals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/06\/29\/1011047410\/city-sized-neutron-star-massive-black-hole-collide-gulps-universe-gravitational\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from NPR<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When A City-Size Star Becomes A Black Hole&#8217;s Lunch, The Universe Roils<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/4494969\/nell-greenfieldboyce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NELL GREENFIELDBOYCE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2021\/06\/28\/rainbow-swirl-refracted_slide-1935942ad35d5b587f4a3d226b85a5b93c151e26-s800-c85.webp\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><em>An artistic image of what happens when a monstrous black hole collides with \u2014 and gulps down \u2014 a neutron star the size of a large city. Carl Knox\/OzGrav\/Swinburne<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A black hole swallowing a neutron star \u2014 a star more massive than our sun but only about the size of a city \u2014 has been observed for the first time ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each of these space monsters is among the most extreme and mysterious phenomena in the universe. The new find,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/journal\/2041-8205\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">described<\/a>\u00a0Tuesday in\u00a0<em>The Astrophysical Journal Letters<\/em>, shows how the very fabric of the universe gets roiled when the two come together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers found not just one, but two black holes making snacks of neutron stars. Their noshing happened about 1 billion years ago but was so intense that it shook space-time and sent out ripples that only recently hit the Earth, triggering giant detectors built to sense these waves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/06\/29\/1011047410\/city-sized-neutron-star-massive-black-hole-collide-gulps-universe-gravitational\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at NPR<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from NPR When A City-Size Star Becomes A Black Hole&#8217;s Lunch, The Universe Roils by NELL GREENFIELDBOYCE A black hole swallowing a neutron star \u2014 a star more massive than our sun but only about the size of a city \u2014 has been observed for the first time ever. Each of these space monsters is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}