{"id":432554,"date":"2026-02-18T16:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/432554\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T16:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:17:08","slug":"a-star-with-the-mass-of-the-sun-but-the-size-of-the-earth-destroyed-by-an-exotic-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/432554\/","title":{"rendered":"A star with the mass of the Sun but the size of the Earth destroyed by an exotic black hole?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tA star with the mass of the Sun but the size of the Earth destroyed by an exotic black hole? &#8211; Futura-Sciences<\/p>\n<p>February 18, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            4 min    <\/p>\n<p>            <img width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/naine-blanche-trou-noir_CAS-Sci-Visual.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"white dwarf black hole_CAS Sci Visual\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><br \/>\n                    Artistic illustration of the Einstein Probe satellite capturing an intermediate-mass black hole, tearing apart a white dwarf, and producing a relativistic jet. \u00a9 Einstein Probe Science Center, National Astronomical Observatories, CAS-Sci Visual<\/p>\n<p>\n            See also\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A star with the mass of the Sun but the size of the Earth destroyed by an exotic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[158173,74070,158174,2302,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-432554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-physics","8":"tag-cosmic-events","9":"tag-gamma-ray-bursts","10":"tag-intermediate-mass-black-holes","11":"tag-physics","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}