{"id":103064,"date":"2020-02-29T16:42:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T00:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/kaboom-astronomers-detect-the-universes-biggest-explosion-since-the-big-bang"},"modified":"2020-02-29T16:42:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T00:42:48","slug":"kaboom-astronomers-detect-the-universes-biggest-explosion-since-the-big-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/kaboom-astronomers-detect-the-universes-biggest-explosion-since-the-big-bang","title":{"rendered":"Kaboom! Astronomers detect the universe\u2019s biggest explosion since the Big Bang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/kaboom-astronomers-detect-the-universes-biggest-explosion-since-the-big-bang.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the universe since the Big Bang, <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2002.01291\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new study<\/a> reports. The explosion took place at the center of a galaxy that\u2019s about 390 million light years from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen outbursts in the centers of galaxies before, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icrar.org\/kaboom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">but this one is really, really massive<\/a>,\u201d said study co-author Melanie Johnston-Hollitt of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, in a statement. \u201cAnd we don\u2019t know why it\u2019s so big.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added that the explosion happened very slowly, taking place over hundreds of millions of years. It also released five times more energy than the previous record holder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the universe since the Big Bang, a new study reports. The explosion took place at the center of a galaxy that\u2019s about 390 million light years from Earth. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen outbursts in the centers of galaxies before, but this one is really, really massive,\u201d said study co-author [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":535,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103064","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\/535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}