# Dr. Brenna Mockler -- When Black Holes Get Hungry

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Podcast: [The Astrophysics Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-astrophysics-podcast-6738395)
Published: 2024-12-01T05:00:35+00:00
Episode link: https://rss.com/podcasts/astrophysics/1734361
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Duration seconds: 3630

## Resource

What do black holes like to eat? Sometimes a steady diet of interstellar gas just isn't enough and a black hole needs to snack on a whole star. No judgment, we all get that way sometimes. But it can lead to some extremely energetic outflows, visible from across the universe. Dr. Brenna Mockler tells us all about these events, called "Tidal Disruption Events", and what we can learn from observing them.

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