{"id":3922946,"date":"2025-11-26T11:04:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T16:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/starquakes-reveal-red-giants-turbulent-history-and-rapid-spin-in-black-hole-system\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T11:04:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T16:04:49","slug":"starquakes-reveal-red-giants-turbulent-history-and-rapid-spin-in-black-hole-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/starquakes-reveal-red-giants-turbulent-history-and-rapid-spin-in-black-hole-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Starquakes reveal red giant&#8217;s turbulent history and rapid spin in black hole system"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Astronomers from the University of Hawai\u02bbi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have uncovered the turbulent past of a distant red giant by listening to its celestial &#8220;song.&#8221; Subtle variations in the star&#8217;s brightness suggest that it potentially once collided and merged with another star, an explosive event that left it spinning rapidly. It now orbits a quiet black hole in the Gaia BH2 system.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-11-starquakes-reveal-red-giant-turbulent.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers from the University of Hawai\u02bbi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have uncovered the turbulent past of a distant red giant by listening to its celestial &#8220;song.&#8221; Subtle variations in the star&#8217;s brightness suggest that it potentially once collided and merged with another star, an explosive event that left it spinning rapidly. It now orbits a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3922946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3922946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}