<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="3.10.0">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://astroakiba.com/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://astroakiba.com/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-10-09T14:43:00-07:00</updated><id>https://astroakiba.com/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Dynamicist’s Digest</title><subtitle>Easy-to-read, bite-sized summaries of astrophysics articles or concepts.</subtitle><author><name>Tatsuya Akiba-Lewis</name></author><entry><title type="html">Flying Too Close to the Black Hole Sun: How stars become destroyed &amp;amp; gobbled up by black holes</title><link href="https://astroakiba.com/blog/2026/10/tidal-disruption/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Flying Too Close to the Black Hole Sun: How stars become destroyed &amp;amp; gobbled up by black holes" /><published>2026-10-09T00:00:00-07:00</published><updated>2026-10-09T00:00:00-07:00</updated><id>https://astroakiba.com/blog/2026/10/tidal-disruption</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://astroakiba.com/blog/2026/10/tidal-disruption/"><![CDATA[]]></content><author><name>Tatsuya Akiba-Lewis</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Stars getting ripped apart by massive black holes, so-called tidal disruption events, explained intuitively]]></summary></entry></feed>