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Hubble finds hungry black hole twisting captured star into donut shape
Black holes are gatherers, not hunters. They lie in wait until a hapless star wanders by. When the star gets close enough, the black hole’s gravitational grasp violently rips it apart and sloppily devours its gasses while belching out intense radiation.
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have recorded a star’s final moments in detail as it gets gobbled up by a black hole.
These are termed “tidal disruption events.” But the wording belies the complex, raw violence of a black hole encounter. There is a balance between the black hole’s gravity pulling in star stuff, and radiation blowing material out. In other words, black holes are messy eaters. Astronomers are using Hubble to find out the details of what happens when a wayward star plunges into the gravitational abyss.
Hubble can’t photograph the AT2022dsb tidal event’s mayhem up close, since the munched-up star is nearly 300 million light-years away at the core of the galaxy ESO 583-G004. But astronomers used Hubble’s powerful ultraviolet sensitivity to study the light from the shredded star, which include hydrogen, carbon, and more. The spectroscopy provides forensic clues to the black hole homicide.
About 100 tidal disruption events around black holes have been detected by astronomers using various telescopes. NASA recently reported that several of its high-energy space observatories spotted another black hole tidal disruption event on March 1, 2021, and it happened in another galaxy. Unlike Hubble observations, data was collected in X-ray light from an extremely hot corona around the black hole that formed after the star was already torn apart.
“However, there are still very few tidal events that are observed in ultraviolet light given the observing time. This is really unfortunate because there’s a lot of information that you can get from the ultraviolet spectra,” said Emily Engelthaler of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “We’re excited because we can get these details about what the debris is doing. The tidal event can tell us a lot about a black hole.” Changes in the doomed star’s condition are taking place on the order of days or months.
For any given galaxy with a quiescent supermassive black hole at the center, it’s estimated that the stellar shredding happens only a few times in every 100,000 years.
This AT2022dsb stellar snacking event was first caught on March 1, 2022 by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN or “Assassin”), a network of ground-based telescopes that surveys the extragalactic sky roughly once a week for violent, variable, and transient events that are shaping our universe. This energetic collision was close enough to Earth and bright enough for the Hubble astronomers to do ultraviolet spectroscopy over a longer than normal period of time.
“Typically, these events are hard to observe. You get maybe a few observations at the beginning of the disruption when it’s really bright. Our program is different in that it is designed to look at a few tidal events over a year to see what happens,” said Peter Maksym of the CfA. “We saw this early enough that we could observe it at these very intense black hole accretion stages. We saw the accretion rate drop as it turned to a trickle over time.”
The Hubble spectroscopic data are interpreted as coming from a very bright, hot, donut-shaped area of gas that was once the star. This area, known as a torus, is the size of the solar system and is swirling around a black hole in the middle.
“We’re looking somewhere on the edge of that donut. We’re seeing a stellar wind from the black hole sweeping over the surface that’s being projected towards us at speeds of 20 million miles per hour (three percent the speed of light),” said Maksym. “We really are still getting our heads around the event. You shred the star and then it’s got this material that’s making its way into the black hole. And so you’ve got models where you think you know what is going on, and then you’ve got what you actually see. This is an exciting place for scientists to be: right at the interface of the known and the unknown.”
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Pope condemns power hungry and alludes to Ukraine conflict in Christmas Eve mass | Pope Francis
Pope Francis warned in a solemn Christmas Eve Mass that the level of greed and hunger for power was such that some wanted to “consume even their neighbours”, in an apparent reference to the war in Ukraine.
Francis, celebrating the 10th Christmas of his pontificate, presided over a capacity crowd of about 7,000 in St. Peter’s Basilica after several years of restricted attendance because of Covid.
About 4,000 other people participated outside in St. Peter’s Square on a relatively warm night.
As was the case for the past several months, a knee ailment prevented Francis from standing for long periods, delegating a cardinal to be the main celebrant at the altar of the largest church in Christendom.
Sitting to the side of the altar for most of the Mass, he spoke of greed and consumption on various levels, asking people to look beyond the consumerism that has “packaged” the feast, rediscover its meaning, and remember those suffering from war and poverty.
“Men and women in our world, in their hunger for wealth and power, consume even their neighbours, their brothers and sisters,” he said. “How many wars have we seen! And in how many places, even today, are human dignity and freedom treated with contempt!”
Since Russia invaded its neighbour in February, Francis has spoken out against the war at nearly every public event, denouncing what he has called atrocities and unprovoked aggression.
He did not specifically mention Ukraine on Saturday night.
“As always, the principal victims of this human greed are the weak and the vulnerable,” he said.
“I think above all of the children devoured by war, poverty and injustice.”
Drawing a parallel between the infant Jesus born in a manger and the poverty of today, the pope said: “In the manger of rejection and discomfort, God makes himself present. He comes there because there we see the problem of our humanity: the indifference produced by the greedy rush to possess and consume.”
Earlier this month, the pope urged people to spend less on Christmas celebrations and gifts and send the difference to Ukrainians to help them get through the winter.
The pope marked his 86th birthday last week and, apart from the knee ailment, appears to be in overall good health.
On Sunday, he is due to deliver his twice-year “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and the world) blessing from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica to tens of thousands of people in the square below.
Why am I hungry all the time? How can I control my appetite?
Here are some reasons people feel hungry, even after eating a meal.
The types of food you eat
Research has shown that hunger isn’t the same for all foods. If you’re hungry, you probably crave foods high in sugar, carbohydrates or fats. That might be why people rarely say they’re craving an apple. Instead, we tend to want tortilla chips, cookies or pizza.
It sounds counterintuitive, but eating certain foods might be making you feel hungrier. Carbohydrates don’t suppress hunger hormones for as long as fat or protein. Ultra-processed foods appear to promote appetite, though scientists are still unclear as to why. And liquid sources of calories — such as smoothies — are less filling than solids.
High-calorie foods, at least in rodents, cause inflammation in body-weight regulating areas of the brain that increases consumption of these foods. Eating as much as they can while food is plenty makes sense for bears about to hibernate, for example. But if the same inflammation occurs in the brain in humans, it could create a cycle of feeling hungry and opting for tasty, high-calorie foods over and over.
Try to avoid ultra-processed foods and, when possible, include a variety of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds in your diet. Aim to incorporate proteins and fats in your meals, rather than solely carbohydrates.
Your hunger could also just be a matter of how life’s priorities affect energy needs. Think about your eating pattern: When do you get hungry? After vigorous exercise? At night? People can feel less hungry immediately after exercise but much hungrier hours or even days later.
You might be limiting food intake during the day because of a busy schedule or efforts to manage your weight, but then experience cravings or a lack of fullness in the evenings.
A common — but often overlooked — factor in your appetite is whether you recently lost weight.
Body weight is a tightly regulated biological system. After weight loss, hormones in the blood signal the brain that energy stores in the form of fat are being depleted. Energy availability is critical to survival, so the brain acts to save energy and boosts our drive to eat.
This happens regardless of the weight you started at and even if you were having health problems related to your weight.
Experts agree that the brain powerfully defends the level of body fat and that this can drive weight regain after weight loss. This accumulated research is why many scientists think we should consider obesity to be a chronic disease and why treatment recommendations more often include medication as well as lifestyle changes, especially for those with serious health concerns related to their weight.
In general, if you aren’t meeting your body’s total daily energy needs to maintain your weight, your brain will motivate you to eat. Skipping meals or going long periods of time without eating stimulates appetite through hormone changes and the brain. You might experience this as a growling stomach, but also as cravings or urges.
It’s worth checking your medication list with your doctor as well. Some medications for diabetes (glyburide, glipizide), neuropathy (gabapentin) and depression (mirtazapine) are associated with increased appetite and weight gain.
If your appetite has noticeably changed, especially if you’ve been gaining or losing weight, it’s important to be evaluated by a physician. Loss of appetite can accompany serious illnesses, including diabetes, cancer or depression. Increased appetite and weight gain are symptoms of hypothyroidism, polycystic ovarian syndrome and sleep disorders.
Genetics and hormone changes
If your hunger issues began as a child — when you were 5 years old or younger — rare genetic conditions could be the cause. The overall set of genes you inherited are another powerful and common influence: Studies have shown that the brain responds to food similarly in identical twins, who also have a similar baseline appetite level. Hormonal changes of puberty, pregnancy and premenstrual syndrome commonly affect appetite.
If you experience a sense of loss of control or feeling numb and consume large amounts of food to the point of discomfort, or are purging after you eat, then you should be evaluated for an eating disorder.
Stress, emotions and sleep
Stress levels, boredom, food cues, emotions and poor sleep can trigger your urge to eat. In those cases, mindful or intuitive eating might be a good strategy to investigate, as can addressing the underlying cause, such as ensuring you get good, quality sleep.
It might take time to sort out these issues, so be kind to yourself. Feelings around food, weight and body image can be intense. Many people have experienced bias or discrimination because of weight stigma, including from health professionals. So if you’re being blamed or shamed, look for medical help elsewhere. Everyone deserves to feel safe and supported when discussing issues of weight and appetite.
Remember that there’s a reason urges to eat are so powerful. Though our food system and diets have changed in modern times, our brains are still wired for survival. Even when we aren’t aware of it, this biological drive shapes our behavior.
When you eat may dictate how hungry you are, study says
A new study comparing people who ate the same foods — but at different times in the day. (Superstar, Shutterstock)
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ATLANTA — We all know that eating later in the day isn’t good for our waistlines, but why? A new study weighed in on that question by comparing people who ate the same foods — but at different times in the day.
“Does the time that we eat matter when everything else is kept consistent?” said first author Nina Vujović, a researcher in the division of sleep and circadian disorders at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
The answer was yes. Eating later in the day will double your odds of being hungrier, according to the study published Tuesday in the journal Cell Metabolism.
“We found that eating four hours later makes a significant difference for our hunger levels, the way we burn calories after we eat, and the way we store fat,” Vujović said. “Together, these changes may explain why late eating is associated with increased obesity risk reported by other studies and provide new biological insight into the underlying mechanisms.”
The study provides support for the concept that circadian rhythm, which influences key physiologic functions such as body temperature and heart rate, affects how our bodies absorb fuel, researchers said.
The study does show eating later results in “an increase in hunger, impacts hormones and also changes gene expression, especially in terms of fat metabolism with a tendency towards less fat breakdown and more fat deposition,” said Dr. Bhanu Prakash Kolla, a professor of psychiatry and psychology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and a consultant to Mayo’s Center for Sleep Medicine and Division of Addiction Medicine.
While prior studies have linked later eating to weight gain, this study did not measure weight loss and cannot show a causal link, said Kolla, who was not involved in the study. In addition, research has shown that skipping breakfast is linked to obesity, he said.
“So could these results be a result of skipping breakfast rather than eating late? That’s an effect to consider for this study,” Kolla said.
Tightly controlled
The study was small — only 16 overweight or obese people — but carefully planned to eliminate other potential causes of weight gain, the authors said.
“While there have been other studies investigating why late eating associates with an increased risk for obesity, this may be the most well controlled, including strictly controlling the amount, composition and timing of meals, physical activity, sleep, room temperature and light exposure,” said senior author Frank Scheer, director of the Medical Chronobiology Program in the Brigham’s Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders.
All participants were in good health, with no history of diabetes or shift work, which can affect circadian rhythm, and had regular physical activity. Each person in the study kept to a strict healthy sleep/wake schedule for about three weeks and were provided with prepared meals at fixed times for three days before the lab experiment began.
Participants were then randomized into two groups. One group ate calorie-controlled meals at 8 a.m., noon and 4 p.m., while the other ate the same meals four hours later, at noon, 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. for the six days reported in the study. Measures of hunger and appetite were gathered 18 times each while tests for body fat, temperature and energy expenditures were gathered on three separate days.
After a break of a few weeks, the same participants reversed the procedure — those who had eaten earlier moved to the late eating group and vice versa, thus using each person as their own control.
More hunger, less fat burned
Results showed that hunger pangs doubled for those on a night-eating regime. People who ate later in the day also reported a desire for starchy and salty foods, meat and, to a lesser extent, a desire for dairy foods and vegetables.
By looking at the results of blood tests, researchers were able to see why: Levels of leptin, a hormone that tells us when we feel full, were decreased for late eaters versus early eaters. In comparison, levels of the hormone ghrelin, which spikes our appetite, rose.
“What is new is that our results show that late eating causes an increase in the ratio of ghrelin and leptin averaged across the full 24-hour sleep/wake cycle,” Scheer said. In fact, the study found that the ratio of ghrelin to leptin rose by 34% when meals were eaten later in the day.
“These changes in appetite-regulating hormones fits well with the increase in hunger and appetite with late eating,” Scheer said.
When participants ate later in the day they also burned calories at a slower rate than when they ate at earlier times. Tests of their body fat found changes in genes that would impact how fat is burned or stored, the study found.
“These changes in gene expression would support the growth of fat tissue by formation of more fat cells, as well as by increased fat storage,” Scheer said.
It’s not known if these effects would continue over time, or on people who currently take medications for chronic disease, which were excluded from this study. Further study is needed, the authors said.
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Healthy Diet Tips: 5 Everyday Foods That May Help You Stop Feeling Hungry – Expert Suggests
Are you someone who feels hungry all the time? If yes, then you surely know how irritating the feeling is. The continuous hunger not only keeps us angry all the time, but also lowers the energy by leaps and bounds. That’s not all. It also leads to untimely eating or over eating, leading to weight gain and other lifestyle diseases. But, have you ever wondered why do you feel hungry all the time? While some might think it is due to stress, the real reason, as per experts, is lack of nutrition. Before getting into details, let’s first understand what do we mean by wholesome meal. It is not eating to your heart’s content (which is important too!), but fulfilling the body’s daily nutrient needs. And if you do not do the same, you will end up feeling hungry all the time.
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Explaining the phenomenon, celebrity nutritionist Lovneet Batra states, “Hunger pangs caused by certain hunger hormones in our body occur for a variety of reasons. And to fight them you need to find the right fix that stabilises energy in our system.” And the best way to stabilise energy is by loading up of nutritional foods. Lovneet Batra further took to Instagram to share some food options that might help you curb those untimely hunger pangs. Take a look.
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Healthy Diet Tips: Here’re 5 Foods To Curb Untimely Hunger Pangs:
Almonds:
Almonds are considered superfood. They are enriched with antioxidants, vitamin E, magnesium, healthy fats, protein and fibre. According to Lovneet Batra, “Both protein and fibre are known to increase feelings of fullness. Also, study found that consuming almonds reduced hunger and improved dietary vitamin E and monounsaturated fat.”
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Coconut:
Did you know, coconut can be a great snack to curb your hunger pangs?! “The medium chain triglycerides (MCTs include capric, caprylic, caproic, and lauric acid) present in coconut are known to burn body fat faster and reduce appetite leading to a spontaneous decrease in calorie intake,” the nutritionist explained. She further stated that the high fibre content of coconut meat could also boost the feeling of fullness, which subsequently might help prevent overeating.
Sprouts:
The goodness of sprouts needs no introduction. It is always considered a great option to indulge in while maintaining a healthy diet regime. Lovneet Batra stated, “Chana sprouts are rich in protein and fibre that give you a feeling of being full.” Besides the protein content in sprouts helps us keep full for long – it takes longer to digest protein and also the hunger hormone levels in the body. These factors “potentially help you eat less at your next meal,” she mentioned.
Buttermilk:
Buttermilk or chaas is considered a great source of probiotic. It is high in whey protein and helps keep us hydrated and full for long. “Studies also suggest that the high calcium and protein contents of buttermilk influence appetite and energy intake,” added the nutritionist.
Vegetable Juice With Flaxseeds:
Vegetable juice makes for a wholesome drink. The ingredients (used in the juice) help you load up on antioxidants and fibre, further flushing out toxins from the body. It helps keep you full and promotes better gut health. “Add a dose of healthy fats with a tablespoon of roasted flaxseeds,” added Lovneet Batra.
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Now that you have these healthy diet tips handy, we suggest, implement them in your diet and enjoy healthy living. But always remember, moderation is the key.
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Demi Lovato replaced by Ariel Winter in NBC’s ‘Hungry’ sitcom
Ariel Winter’s new TV gig will serve up the former child star’s official transition into an adult starring role.
The “Modern Family” alum, 24, has scored the lead role in Demi Lovato’s upcoming NBC sitcom “Hungry.”
Lovato, 29, was set to star in and produce the comedy series, however, they had to step down from the show due to scheduling conflicts.
The “Cool for the Summer” singer will still executive produce alongside their manager Scooter Braun.
The multi-cam production is penned by “Hot In Cleveland” screenwriter Suzanne Martin and will be directed by TV directing legend James Burrows (“Cheers,” “Friends”).
“Hungry” chronicles a group of friends who attend a food issue support group and help each other as they look for love, success and the perfect thing in the fridge that’s going to make it all better.
Valerie Bertinelli, Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias, Ryan McPartlin, Anna Akana and Ashley D. Kelley have been tapped to co-star. The former Disney Channel star’s project was first announced in January 2021.
Veteran sitcom star and Food Network chef Bertinelli, 61, was previously spotted filming a scrapped version of the “Hungry” pilot in Central Park back in July 2021.
Winter takes over for Lovato as Teddy, a food stylist who is trying to have a healthy relationship with food while dating men. Bertinelli plays Teddy’s mom, Lisa, who is a restaurant owner and has had her own issues with weight.
The part marks a comeback for the former “Modern Family” child star. Winter went through a battle with depression, her own public weight loss and several high-profile hair color changes after a battle to gain control over her career with her former momager she claims “sexualized” her as a child.
Meanwhile, the show seemed a suitable fit for Lovato, as they have openly discussed struggling with body image issues and eating disorders in the past. Lovato has coped with anorexia and bulimia throughout their career and has been focused on body positivity in recent years.
In their 2017 YouTube documentary, “Simply Complicated,” Lovato discussed how food was “the biggest challenge in my life” and they opened up about their eating issues.
“When I was in a relationship with Wilmer [Valderrama] I went three years without purging and when we broke up that’s one of the first things I did,” they said in the special at the time. “The less I have to think about food, the easier it is to go about having a normal life and I don’t want to let anybody down so when I do have moments when I slip up, I feel very ashamed.”
Lovato added that their relapse occurred when they started to miss their ex. “And when I feel lonely, my heart feels hungry and I end up bingeing,” the “Dancing with the Devil” singer continued. Their problems with food started to occur during childhood, explaining that they first started bingeing at 8 years old after their younger sister was born.
Study on obesity cure by turning off ‘hungry hormone’
Obesity could be cured without diet or exercise with a radical trial launched into turning off the so-called “hungry hormone.”
The trial is set to investigate a process that could cut the desire to over-eat and reduce weight in just 40 minutes.
And the process would cost the NHS £1,500 – a quarter of the price of normal fat-loss surgery.
A trial, led by Ahmed R. Ahmed, a bariatric surgeon at London’s St Mary’s Hospital, will see nearly 80 volunteers go through the procedure called bariatric embolisation and have their ghrelin turned off, which is nicknamed the ‘hungry hormone’.
Due to expense and logistics, the NHS performs 6,000 bariatric procedures such as gastric bands, bypasses and sleeves a year, leading to long waiting lists.
Speaking to the MailOnline, Mr Ahmed said that if bariatric embolisation became routine, patients could be out of hospital in two hours.
“You could go in hungry and come out not hungry,” he said.
The doctor said the method’s fast speed and low cost would open up obesity treatment to many more people, but said the effectiveness of it would need to be proved first.
He added: “We really need to know it’s the intervention itself having the effect, and it’s not just a placebo effect.”
The operation, performed under local anesthetic, involves making a small cut in the groin or wrist and passing a hollow wire up through blood vessels.
Microscopic beads are then deposited in an artery serving the upper stomach, or fundus, which will block and therefore reduce ghrelin production.
Small-scale studies have found that obese patients shed on average almost ten percent of their weight after the procedure, although some lose much more.
Such weight loss would significantly improve health, reversing type 2 diabetes and cutting the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Mr Ahmed’s team are recruiting 76 obese volunteers, each with a body mass index of between 35 and 50. Half will have blocker beads inserted, the others will get a saline solution placebo, and they will all be followed for a year.
The trial has received £1.2 million from the NHS’s National Institute of Health Research and is backed by Imperial College London.
Although no patients have yet been given the treatment in Britain, around 25 have had it in the US. Among them was local nurse Kirsten Kerfoot, 32, who has since lost six and a half stone.
The mother of one, who is 5ft 11in and now weighs 15 stone, said: “I can’t remember a time in my life when I haven’t been overweight or obese.
“I used to see an advert for Chinese food on the TV and think, ‘I want it!’ The thought would stay on my mind for days. That was my experience my entire life – with food having this grip on me.
“Thanks to the procedure, I don’t fixate on food like that any more. It’s like being unchained from food.”
Dr Clifford Weiss of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, who is leading a parallel trial of 64 US patients, said: “The goal here is to make patients healthier in the least invasive way possible.”
The treatment was welcomed by Tam Fry, of the National Obesity Forum, who said the NHS had to look at cheaper, quicker alternatives to bariatric surgery, adding: “Obesity is now such a big problem, we’ve got to think outside the box.”
This story originally appeared on The Sun and has been reproduced here with permission.