{"id":101180,"date":"2020-01-21T19:05:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T03:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/catching-a-glimpse-of-the-gamma-ray-burst-engine"},"modified":"2020-01-21T19:05:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T03:05:57","slug":"catching-a-glimpse-of-the-gamma-ray-burst-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/catching-a-glimpse-of-the-gamma-ray-burst-engine","title":{"rendered":"Catching a glimpse of the gamma-ray burst engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/catching-a-glimpse-of-the-gamma-ray-burst-engine.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2019<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A gamma-ray burst registered in December of 2017 turns out to be \u201cone of the closets GRBs ever observed\u201d. The discovery is featured in Nature \u2013 and it has yielded valuable information about the formation of the most luminous phenomenon in the universe. Scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen helped carrying out the analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Jonatan Selsing frequently receives text messages from a certain sender regarding events in space. It happens all around the clock, and when his cell phone goes \u2018beep\u2019 he knows that yet another gamma-ray burst (GRB) notification has arrived. Which, routinely, raises the question: Does this information \u2014 originating from the death of a massive star way back, millions if not billions of years ago \u2013 merit further investigation?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGRBs represent the brightest phenomenon known to science \u2013 the luminous intensity of a single GRB may in fact exceed that of all stars combined! And at the same time GRBs \u2013 which typically last just a couple of seconds \u2013 represent one of the best sources available, when it comes to gleaning information about the initial stages of our universe\u201d, explains Jonatan Selsing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2019 A gamma-ray burst registered in December of 2017 turns out to be \u201cone of the closets GRBs ever observed\u201d. The discovery is featured in Nature \u2013 and it has yielded valuable information about the formation of the most luminous phenomenon in the universe. Scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}