{"id":694538,"date":"2021-06-29T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=694538"},"modified":"2021-06-29T08:00:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T12:00:25","slug":"when-a-city-sized-star-becomes-a-black-holes-lunch-the-universe-roils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=694538","title":{"rendered":"When A City-Sized Star Becomes A Black Hole&#039;s Lunch, The Universe Roils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rainbow-swirl-refracted_wide-8e6f26ffc129385a77aa0077eb939cd5f87ba41e.jpg\" alt=\"An artistic image of what happens when a monstrous black hole collides with &#x2014; and gulps down &#x2014; a neutron star the size of a large city.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a smack down of one space monster by another: Scientists have made unprecedented observations of two black holes gobbling two neutron stars \u2014 among the weirdest space collisions ever detected.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Carl Knox\/OzGrav\/Swinburne)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/npr-rss-pixel-28.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/06\/29\/1011047410\/city-sized-neutron-star-massive-black-hole-collide-gulps-universe-gravitational\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">When A City-Sized Star Becomes A Black Hole&#8217;s Lunch, The Universe Roils<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a smack down of one space monster by another: Scientists have made unprecedented observations of two black holes gobbling two neutron stars \u2014 among the weirdest space collisions ever&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=694538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=694538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=694538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=694538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}