{"id":220698,"date":"2023-01-02T20:25:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T14:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=220698"},"modified":"2023-04-12T13:06:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T07:36:32","slug":"what-is-a-tidal-disruption-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-a-tidal-disruption-event\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a tidal disruption event?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cWhat is a tidal disruption event?\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 1st January,2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Telescopes operated by NASA recently observed a massive black hole devouring a star. The incident was the fifth-closest example of a black hole destroying a star and occurred 250 million light-years from the earth in the centre of another galaxy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This astronomical phenomenon of the destruction of a star by a black hole is formally called a <\/span><b>Tidal disruption event(TDE).<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is a Tidal Disruption Event(TDE)?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>A Tidal Force <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is the difference in the strength of gravity between two points. If the tidal force exerted on a body is greater than the intermolecular force that keeps it together, the body will get disrupted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>During a Tidal Disruption Event(TDE), <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the tidal force of a black hole disrupts the star in the vicinity. While about half of the star\u2019s debris continues on its original path, the other half is attracted by the black hole\u2019s gravitational pull. The gradual growth of this material bound to the black hole produces a short-lived flare of emission known as a Tidal Disruption Event.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the significance of the Tidal Disruption Event(TDE)?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TDEs are attractive to astronomers because of their observability and short duration, and the opportunity to study the impact of black hole\u2019s gravity on materials around them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are also an important tool to learn how black holes influence their environments.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cWhat is a tidal disruption event?\u201d published in The Hindu on 1st January,2023 What is the News? Telescopes operated by NASA recently observed a massive black hole devouring a star. The incident was the fifth-closest example of a black hole destroying a star and occurred 250 million&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-a-tidal-disruption-event\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is a tidal disruption event?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,11209,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-220698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":2,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698296406},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}