{"id":346637,"date":"2025-09-22T17:24:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=346637"},"modified":"2025-09-22T17:24:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:54:36","slug":"extreme-nuclear-transients-ents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/extreme-nuclear-transients-ents\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme Nuclear Transients (ENTs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Astronomers have discovered celestial events more powerful than gamma-ray bursts, known as extreme nuclear transients (ENTs).<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>About\u00a0Extreme Nuclear Transients (ENTs)<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/th.bing.com\/th?id=OVFT.JsGXctDSHXMa9hNoDuHPzy&amp;pid=News&amp;w=234&amp;h=132&amp;c=14&amp;rs=2&amp;qlt=90&amp;dpr=1.3\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"289\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: TH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Extreme Nuclear Transients (ENTs)<\/strong> are the most <strong>powerful energy blasts<\/strong> known in the universe.<\/li>\n<li>These<strong> transients are objects whose brightness changes rapidly <\/strong>and are fueled<strong> by material from a massive star torn apart<\/strong> by a supermassive black hole.<\/li>\n<li>ENTs occur when <strong data-start=\"255\" data-end=\"300\">supermassive black holes tear apart stars,<\/strong>\u00a0releasing massive amounts of energy.<\/li>\n<li>ENTs can <strong data-start=\"381\" data-end=\"491\">emit 100 times more energy in a single year than the Sun produces over its entire 10-billion-year lifetime<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>ENTs are <strong data-start=\"762\" data-end=\"832\">up to 10 times brighter than normal tidal disruption events (TDEs)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>They are <strong>much more powerful than gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)<\/strong>, which were previously considered the most energetic events in the universe.<\/li>\n<li>ENTs travel across vast distances and stay bright in radio wavelengths for years.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Formation<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>They are believed to occur when a <strong>star gets too close to a supermassive black hole<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The intense gravitational forces <strong>stretch and compress the star into a long, thin stream<\/strong>, releasing vast amounts of electromagnetic energy.<\/li>\n<li>This process is called a <strong>tidal disruption event (TDE)<\/strong> but at an extreme scale.<\/li>\n<li>ENTs are <strong>essentially extreme forms of TDEs<\/strong> of massive stars.<\/li>\n<li>ENTs are <strong>much rarer than TDEs<\/strong>, making them difficult to observe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scientific Importance<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>ENTs help astronomers <strong data-start=\"1524\" data-end=\"1578\">study supermassive black holes in distant galaxies<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Because of their brightness, ENTs can be <strong data-start=\"1625\" data-end=\"1662\">seen across vast cosmic distances<\/strong>, making them powerful tools for probing the early universe.<\/li>\n<li>Observing ENTs provides <strong data-start=\"1751\" data-end=\"1832\">insights into how black holes grew when the universe was half its current age<\/strong>, a time when galaxies were forming stars and feeding their black holes more actively.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Astronomers have discovered celestial events more powerful than gamma-ray bursts, known as extreme nuclear transients (ENTs). About\u00a0Extreme Nuclear Transients (ENTs) Extreme Nuclear Transients (ENTs) are the most powerful energy blasts known in the universe. 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