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Star survives spaghettification by black hole
A captured star has experienced multiple close encounters with a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy — and possibly even survived having material ripped away by immense gravitational tidal forces.
The destruction of a star by the gravitational forces of a supermassive black hole is a violent affair known as a tidal disruption event (TDE). Gas is torn from the star and undergoes “spaghettification,” in which it is shredded and stretched into streams of hot material that flow around the black hole, forming a temporary and very bright accretion disk. From our point of view, the center of the galaxy housing the supermassive black hole seems to flare.
On Sept. 8, 2018, the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASASSN) spotted a flare in the nucleus of a distant galaxy 893 million light-years away. Cataloged as AT2018fyk, the flare had all the hallmarks of a TDE. Various X-ray telescopes, including NASA’s Swift, Europe’s XMM-Newton, the NICER instrument mounted to the International Space Station, and Germany’s eROSITA, observed the black hole brightening dramatically. Ordinarily, TDEs exhibit a smooth decline in brightness over several years, but when astronomers looked again at AT2018fyk about 600 days after it had first been noticed, the X-rays had quickly vanished. Even more puzzling, about 600 days after that, the black hole suddenly flared up again. What was going on?
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“Until now, the assumption has been that when we see the aftermath of a close encounter between a star and a supermassive black hole, the outcome will be fatal for the star; that is, the star is completely destroyed,” Thomas Wevers, an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory and an author of new research about the event, said in a statement. “But contrary to all other TDEs we know of, when we pointed our telescopes to the same location again several years later, we found that it had re-brightened.”
Wevers led a team of astronomers who realized that the repeated flares were the signature of a star that had survived a TDE and completed another orbit to experience a second TDE. To fully explain what they were observing, Wevers’ group developed a model of a “repeating partial TDE.”
In their model, the star was once a member of a binary system that passed too close to the black hole at the center of its galaxy. The black hole’s gravity flung one of the stars away, which transformed into a runaway hypervelocity star racing at 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) per second out of the galaxy. The other star became tightly harnessed to the black hole, on a 1,200-day elliptical orbit that took it toward what scientists call the tidal radius — the distance from the black hole at which a star starts to be ripped apart by the gravitational tides emanating from the black hole.
Because the star was not fully within the tidal radius, only some of its material was stripped away, leaving a dense stellar core that continued on its orbit around the black hole. It takes approximately 600 days for the material pulled from the star by the black hole to form the accretion disk, so by the time astronomers saw the system flare, the star was safe, near the most distant point of its orbit.
But as the star’s core began to approach the black hole again, about 1,200 days after its first encounter, the star began to steal back some of its material back from the accretion disk, causing the X-ray emission to suddenly fade. “When the core returns to the black hole it essentially steals all the gas away from the black hole via gravity, and as a result there is no matter to accrete and hence the system goes dark,” Dheeraj Pasham, a co-author on the study and an astrophysicist at MIT, said in the statement.
But the black hole’s gravity soon returns the favor, stealing more material at the star’s close approach. As during the initial encounter, there’s a 600-day lag from the black hole snacking on the star to the formation of the accretion disk, explaining why the X-ray flare switched back on when it did.
From the star’s orbit, Wevers’ team calculated that the black hole has a mass nearly 80 million times that of our sun, or about 20 times more massive than the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, Sagittarius A*.
Wevers’ team won’t have to wait long to find out if the theory is right. The scientists predict that AT2018fyk should go dark again in August, when the core of the star comes back around, and brighten again in March 2025 when new material begins accreting onto the black hole.
However, there’s one potential complication in the amount of mass the star has lost to the black hole. The amount of lost mass depends partly on how fast the star is spinning, which the black hole might be affecting. If the star is spinning nearly fast enough to break apart, then the black hole will more easily steal material, increasing the mass loss.
“If the mass loss is only at the 1% level, then we expect the star to survive for many more encounters, whereas if it is closer to 10%, the star may have already been destroyed,” Eric Coughlin, a co-author on the study from Syracuse University in New York, said in the statement.
Regardless, TDEs and repeating partial TDEs provide a rare window into the lives of supermassive black holes that we cannot normally detect because they are dormant. This is important for measuring their mass and determining something about how the black holes have evolved, and hence how the galaxy around the black hole has also evolved over cosmic history.
The findings were presented at the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society and published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, both on Jan. 12.
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‘RHOC’ alum Kelly Dodd’s husband Rick Leventhal survives car crash
Rick Leventhal, the husband of “Real Housewives of Orange County” alum Kelly Dodd, feels “lucky to be alive” after surviving a horrifying car crash.
“So lucky to be alive & grateful for the well wishes & care I’m getting. 4 broken ribs, fractured bone right foot, wounded pride,” the former Fox News reporter, 62, captioned an Instagram post shared Tuesday night.
“So far that’s it 🙏❤️😎.”
In an accompanying video from his hospital bed, Leventhal elaborated on the scary incident.
“I hydroplaned heading east on 410, about 40 minutes outside pf Palm Desert, just straight away hit what felt like a patch of ice,” he said, acknowledging Southern California’s recent bout of heavy rain. “It was just water or whatever.”
Leventhal continued, “Roads were slick, lost control, slammed into the wall hard. Started spitting around across lanes of traffic and slammed right into the back of a tractor trailer, ripped the front end of a Mercedes off and smashed a windshield.”
The news personality went on to say that one of his vehicle’s windows “busted” and “both airbags” deployed.
“I think I might’ve broke my ribs from the airbag,” he said, noting that a “trucker helped [him] out.”
Despite his injuries, Leventhal insisted that he is “fine.” However, doctors “want to keep me in the hospital for a little bit,” he added. “But it could have been so much worse.”
His spouse, Dodd, 47 — whom he wed in October 2020 — asked fans for prayers in a post of her own.
“There will be no smash tomorrow on @youtube the rick and kelly show. My husband got in a horrible car accident,” she captioned photos of the wreck. “He is in the ER.. please say prayers for @rickleventhal.”
A portion of Dodd’s Bravo family sent well wishes for Leventhal in her comments section.
“Oh no! Thank God he is ok,” her former “RHOC” castmate Vicki Gunvalson wrote. “Praying for a speedy recovery.”
“Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Margaret Josephs wrote added, “So frightening sending prayers 🙏🙏🙏❤️.”
“Shahs of Sunset” alum Mercedes “MJ” Javid also shared a supportive message, writing, “omg no im so sorry and sending prayers.”
Meanwhile, Leventhal himself expressed extra gratitude for his safety following the accident.
“Honestly I’m lucky to be alive. Scariest moments of my life,” he commented on Dodd’s page. “This makes everything even more meaningful ❤️.”
Mexico news anchor survives shooting amid surge in violence against journalists | Mexico
One of Mexico’s most prominent news anchors has survived an apparent assassination attempt near his home in the capital, in one of the most brazen attacks against a journalist the country has seen in recent decades.
Ciro Gómez Leyva, a news anchor for the national news network, Grupo Imagen, was driving a bulletproof SUV when the pillion rider on a motorcycle opened fire on him late on Thursday.
Gómez was unharmed, but the attack highlighted the dramatic escalation in violence against Mexican journalists under the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, popularly known as Amlo.
Forty-two journalists were killed during the first three years of Amlo’s term as president, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. That compared to forty-five journalists killed in the entire six-year term of the last president, Enrique Peña Nieto.
López Obrador has repeatedly lambasted journalists critical of his administration, and violence against journalists has increased by 85% since he took office, according to the press freedom organization, Article 19. Earlier this year, the director of the non-profit received a death threat the same day he presented a report on the increasing dangers faced by journalists in the country.
On Wednesday, Amlo singled out Gómez for criticism during a regular section of his daily news conference dedicated to what the president calls the media’s “lies of the week”.
At Friday’s press conference, the president denounced the attack on Gómez. “He’s a journalist, a human being, but he’s also a leader of public opinion. Hurting a figure like Ciro creates a lot of political instability,” Amlo said.
Mexico City was once considered safer than many regions of the country for journalists. But that is changing.
“It’s extremely worrying that such a thing can happen in Mexico City,” said Jan-Albert Hootsen, the Mexico representative for the Committee to Protect Journalists, of the assassination attempt. “It also speaks volumes of the brazenness of some of these people, that they are willing to go this far attacking a person with such a high profile in the media.”
The danger for journalists based in the city has increased in recent years. Rubén Espinoza, a photographer for Proceso Magazine, fled the state of Veracruz for Mexico City after receiving death threats while covering corruption allegations against then-governor Javier Duarte. He was shot dead in his apartment in 2015, along with four other people.
Just last year, the leader of the hyper-violent New Generation Jalisco Cartel, Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho,” threatened to kill Azucena Uresti, an anchor for the Milenio TV network, who also lives in the capital.
And government officials have not been spared the violence here.
In 2020, the city’s police chief survived an attack in one of the city’s wealthiest neighborhoods by gunmen wielding armor-piercing .50 caliber machine guns.
NASA’s Inflatable Heat Shield Survives Atmospheric Trial by Fire
NASA has successfully flown an inflatable heat shield down through Earth’s atmosphere, in a technology demonstration that could one day help safely land spacecraft on the surface of Mars and beyond.
Since the advent of human spaceflight, scientists and engineers have grappled with the inherent dangers of atmospheric re-entry. Without sufficient protection, the extreme aerodynamic forces and friction-induced heat triggered by a spacecraft striking the atmosphere at high speeds would inevitably tear it apart in a fiery display.
In order to make an atmospheric descent safe, NASA and its partners would need to figure out a system of heatproofing their spacecraft, and allowing them to survive long enough for aerodynamic drag to slow the spacecraft to a safe velocity to deploy parachutes.
To this end, engineers developed a series of protective coatings – often made from metallic materials or ceramic tiles – that, once attached to the bottom of a spacecraft, were designed to absorb the otherwise devastating temperatures experienced during re-entry.
This approach has remained largely unchanged up to the modern day and has been proven to work well as a thermal defense against the dense particulate soup of Earth’s atmosphere.
However, a significant down side to the conventional heat shield is that they are incredibly inflexible, and can only ever be as large as the protective rocket fairing that surrounds them. This makes them an unattractive option for scientists planning a future crewed mission to Mars.
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The atmosphere of the Red Planet is significantly less dense than that of the Earth, and because of this a larger surface area is needed to slow a spacecraft down in time to perform a safe landing. Developing such a heat shield is a critical step to making humanity a multi-planetary species.
To this end, NASA and its partners have been working on an inflatable cone-shaped heat shield that could be launched in a compact configuration, and later expanded in space to provide a massive surface area with which to attract atmospheric drag. The first orbital demonstration of the tech has been imaginatively named the Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator, or LOFTID for short.
The LOFTID prototype is made up of a series of connected inflatable tubes that, on the atmosphere-facing side, are covered in a heat-resistant skin of woven ceramic fabric.
LOFTID pictured on the deck of the recovery ship after surviving atmospheric re-entry (Image credit: ULA)
On November 10 at 4:49 a.m. ET, NASA launched the aeroshell into the frigid space environment atop an Atlas V rocket for its first orbital test – a literal trial by fire. During ascent, the deflated heat shield was stacked neatly beneath a state-of-the-art weather satellite en route to a high polar orbit.
Roughly an hour and ten minutes into the mission – with the weather satellite safely detached and on its way – NASA scientists gave the command for LOFTID to power up and inflate.
The process, which took around 10 minutes, saw the tightly packed 4 ft-wide inflatable expand to an impressive 20 ft in diameter. Soon after completing an orbital lap of Earth, LOFTID detached from the upper stage of the launch vehicle and began its perilous descent through the atmosphere while travelling at over 18,000 mph.
Incredibly, the aeroshell was able to survive the 2,600-degree Fahrenheit temperature of re-entry, and decelerate to safely deploy parachutes before splashing down hundreds of miles off the coast of Hawaii.
With the technology a proven success, NASA could look to use it in future missions to land humans on Mars, and explore distant worlds including Venus and the Saturnian moon Titan.
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College basketball scores, rankings, highlights: Duke’s Jon Scheyer wins in debut, TCU survives upset scare
There were no marquee matchups between top 25 teams on college basketball’s opening day, but there were plenty of major storylines and some drama to follow as a new season tipped on Monday. One of the night’s most-fascinating matchups came at Cameron Indoor Stadium, where No. 7 Duke faced — and handled — some adversity in in its first game since the retirement of legendary coach Mike Krzyzewski.
The Blue Devils started slow with their top two freshmen out but ultimately cruised to a 71-44 win over Jacksonville in Jon Scheyer’s head coaching debut. With No. 2 overall prospect Dereck Lively and No. 3 overall prospect Dariq Whitehead sidelined due to injury, it was a slightly less-heralded freshman, Mark Mitchell, who paced Duke with 18 points.
Junior point guard Jeremy Roach, the program’s lone returning rotation player from last season’s Final Four squad, added 16 points, six rebounds and four assists while freshman big man Kyle Filipowski contributed 10 points, 12 rebounds and two blocks. Mitchell and Filipowski were five-star prospects in their own right and looked the part while fellow freshman Tyrese Proctor struggled in his debut.
Duke led just 25-21 with five minutes left in the first half against a Jacksonville squad picked to finish second in the Atlantic Sun, but the Blue Devils closed the half on a 14-2 run to seize control and never looked back. Fellow blue bloods No. 4 Kentucky and No. 16 Villanova also overcame the absences of key players to post double-digit wins on opening night.
The Wildcats outlasted Howard 95-63 with reigning national player of the year Oscar Tshiebwe, veteran point guard Sahvir Wheeler and sophomore rotation player Daimion Collins all out. Villanova cruised past La Salle 81-68 in coach Kyle Neptune’s debut despite being without key freshman Cam Whitmore and veteran stalwart Justin Moore, who is expected to miss the season’s first several weeks.
Things were a bit more tense for a couple other ranked squads on opening night. No. 14 TCU trailed Arkansas-Pine Bluff by 11 at halftime before rallying and withstanding a buzzer-beater attempt for a 73-72 win over a SWAC foe that won just seven games last season. Though the Horned Frogs avoided disaster, their performance was nonetheless concerning against a low-major program that entered just 15-71 over the past three seasons.
No. 9 Creighton also struggled in surprising fashion before closing on a 16-3 run for a 72-60 win over St. Thomas program beginning its second season at the Division I level. The Blue Jays hit just 8 of 34 attempts from 3-point range but got a pair of clutch outside makes from South Dakota State transfer Baylor Scheierman to spark their late run.
There were upsets outside of the Top 25, however. Stetson defeated Florida State 83-74 as the Hatters snapped an 18-game losing streak to the Seminoles. FSU hadn’t lost at home to Stetson since 1953.
In another upset, Sam Houston sophomore Lamar Wilkerson buried his fifth 3-pointer of the game with four seconds remaining to give the Bearkats a 52-51 victory vs. Oklahoma.
College basketball scores, schedule
No. 5 Baylor 117, Mississippi Valley State 53 — Recap
No. 4 Kentucky 95, Howard 63 — Recap
No. 22 Michigan 75, PFW 66 — Recap
No. 16 Villanova 81, La Salle 68 — Recap
No. 7 Duke 71, Jacksonville 44 — Recap
No. 13 Indiana 88, Morehead State 53 — Recap
No. 11 Tennessee 75, Tennessee Tech 43 — Recap
No. 15 Auburn 70, George Mason 52 — Recap
No. 3 Houston 83, Northern Colorado 36 — Recap
No. 10 Arkansas 76, North Dakota State 58 — Recap
Memphis 76, Vanderbilt 67 — Recap
No.5 Kansas 89, Omaha 64 — Recap
No. 9 Creighton 72, St. Thomas 60 — Recap
No. 1 North Carolina 69, UNC-Wilmington 56 — Recap
No. 2 Gonzaga 104, North Florida 63 — Recap
No. 12 Texas 72, UTEP 57 — Recap
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Braves vs. Phillies score: Takeaways as Philadelphia survives bullpen meltdown in NLDS Game 1
The Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday defeated the Atlanta Braves by a score of 7-6 in Game 1 of the National League Division Series. The Phillies now have a 1-0 lead in the best-of-five series, and are 3-0 this postseason including their two-game sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals in the wild-card round. The outcome means the reigning-champion Braves, who won 101 games and the NL East title during the regular season, will be desperate for a victory in Wednesday’s Game 2.
Braves starter Max Fried struggled badly, and the Phillies strung together multiple two-out rallies. On offense, Atlanta had their chances but weren’t able to convert often enough despite a good deal of traffic on the bases — at least until the final frame.
For the Phillies, Nick Castellanos gathered three hits and three RBI, and Seranthony Domínguez worked two perfect innings in relief. Overall, the Philly bullpen retired 11 straight at one point, but the Braves broke through in the ninth against Zach Eflin for three runs. Eflin and the Phillies, however, were able to avert disaster and hold on for the win.
Now for some takeaways from Game 1.
The Braves made it (very) interesting in the bottom of the ninth
The Phillies led 7-3 going into the bottom of the ninth, which gave them something close to a 99 percent chance of winning the game. Then the Braves opened the frame with back-to-back singles before Eflin notched a strikeout for the first out. With a single swing, slugger Matt Olson brought the Braves within a single run:
That made the score 7-6 and obviously put the Phillies’ designs on an easy Game 1 in great peril. The next batter, William Contreras, lifted a bloop into right, but fortunately for the Phillies Castellanos was on the case:
Castellanos is a well-established liability in the field, but he came through in a huge way for the second out of inning. If that ball scoots under his glove, then Contreras is in scoring position — and possibly on third base — with one out. Instead, the Phillies had two outs with the bases empty. Eflin was then able to retire Travis d’Arnaud on a grounder to end the threat one run shy of miracle status.
Max Fried didn’t have it
The Braves tabbed the All-Star lefty Fried to start Game 1 with ample cause. During the regular season, Fried put up an ERA of 2.48 with a similarly sparking K/BB ratio of 5.31 in 185 ⅓ innings. Yes, the Phillies’ lineup this season has been adept at handling left-handed pitching, but Fried during the regular season fared quite well against them (an ERA of 3.13 with no unearned runs allowed and 25 strikeouts against five unintentional walks in 23 innings over four starts).
Well, to say the least, Tuesday did not go as Fried and the Braves had hoped:
Not surprising in light of those numbers is that the Philly bats were not the least bit fooled in Game 1:
During the regular season, Fried’s shortest start was five innings, and his season-high for runs allowed in a start was five way back yonder on April 7, his first outing of the season. As for Game Score, which is a quick-and-dirty Bill James metric that measures a pitcher’s dominance or lack thereof in a given start (50 is average and anything 90 or higher is an absolute gem), Fried’s worst mark during the regular season was 37 on, again, April 7. In Game 1 against Philly, Fried’s Game Score was 25. He hasn’t reached those depths since his start against the Marlins on April 13 of last year.
For whatever it’s worth – and it may be worth nothing at all – Fried came into this one on ten days of rest since his last start on Sept. 30.
Travis d’Arnaud brought the playoff power once again
Let’s give the Braves something positive from this one, shall we? Veteran catcher Travis d’Arnaud got the Braves on the board in the second with this home run off Phillies starter Ranger Suárez:
That blast gives d’Arnaud eight home runs in 49 career postseason games with the Mets, Rays, and Braves. And that puts him on the following all-time catcher leaderboard:
Across his 10-year MLB career, d’Arnaud has averaged 22 home runs per 162 games played, and this season he hit a career-high 18 spanks in 107 games for Atlanta. That’s good pop, especially by positional standards. Said good pop was on full display early in Game 1. As well, d’Arnaud in the fifth notched a two-RBI double that brought the Braves within punching distance.
The Phillies are now in a good spot
Historically, teams that take Game 1 of a best-of-five MLB playoff series go on to win that series 71.3 percent of the time. Teams that steal Game 1 on the road of a best-of-fiver, as the Phillies did, go on to win that series 71.7 percent of the time. That last figure is significant because it says that even presumptive series underdogs – usually the team that begins the series on the road – have fared just as well after winning the first game of the series.
Specific to this series, this is significant for the Phillies because they won a game in which their No. 3 starter opposed the Braves No. 1-ish starter. Now the Phillies will have their tandem aces, Zack Wheeler and Aaron Nola, lined up to start the next two games on full rest.
Speaking of which, Game 2 is scheduled for Wednesday with first pitch at 4:35 p.m. ET back at Truist Park. Wheeler will go for the Phillies against the Braves’ Kyle Wright in a duel of right-handers.
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Watch how the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 survives a brutal teardown
Last updated: September 24th, 2022 at 12:10 UTC+02:00
People have this idea of foldable smartphones being delicate and certainly not as durable as conventional devices. This is an idea that Samsung has been working very hard to dismiss. It has considerably improved the durability of its foldable smartphones over the past couple of years.
There’s no bigger testament to that than the Galaxy Z Flip 4. A new teardown video shows just how much the Galaxy Z Flip 4 can go through and yet still remain fully functional. Hats off to Samsung’s engineering prowess.
The Galaxy Z Flip 4 can sure take a beating
YouTuber JerryRigEverything is highly regarded for his durability tests and teardown videos. He’s done the latter on his Galaxy Z Flip 4 that has previously passed the durability test with flying colors.
The actual teardown process goes as you’d imagine. Peeling the display off requires the use of a heat gun. This is also where we find that the foldable panel retains an under-display metal backing even though this has been removed on the Galaxy Z Fold 4. Some metal slats and an additional sheet is also used to reinforce the screen around the hinge.
Removing the back panels also requires the application of some heat after which the rest of the process is fairly standard. There are a few ribbons to unclip and screws to open. All of the components are then freed from their respective positions. You won’t see any thermal paste or vapor chambers for cooling the internal components. Samsung is relying on graphite pads for that purpose.
Once inside, we can see the improved hinge mechanism that Samsung has introduced with this device. Instead of gears, the new hinge uses machined channels to make it possible to fold the device. It all looks very well engineered and what’s impressive is that when the entire process is reversed, the Galaxy Z Flip 4 comes back to life, even though it may seem impossible.
We’ll certainly see Samsung’s foldable phones go from strength to strength in the durability department for future iterations. It goes to show that there’s no need to baby Samsung’s foldables. They’re built to last.
