{"id":124232,"date":"2021-06-24T21:23:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T04:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/giant-lasers-help-re-create-supernovas-explosive-mysterious-physics"},"modified":"2021-06-24T21:23:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T04:23:28","slug":"giant-lasers-help-re-create-supernovas-explosive-mysterious-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/giant-lasers-help-re-create-supernovas-explosive-mysterious-physics","title":{"rendered":"Giant lasers help re-create supernovas\u2019 explosive, mysterious physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/atmK2mtPWkQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Learning the results sparked a moment of joyous celebration, Park says: high fives to everyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is some of the first experimental evidence of the formation of these collisionless shocks,\u201d says plasma physicist Francisco Suzuki-Vidal of Imperial College London, who was not involved in the study. \u201cThis is something that has been really hard to reproduce in the laboratory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team also discovered that electrons had been accelerated by the shock waves, reaching energies more than 100 times as high as those of particles in the ambient plasma. For the first time, scientists had watched particles surfing shock waves like the ones found in supernova remnants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning the results sparked a moment of joyous celebration, Park says: high fives to everyone. \u201cThis is some of the first experimental evidence of the formation of these collisionless shocks,\u201d says plasma physicist Francisco Suzuki-Vidal of Imperial College London, who was not involved in the study. \u201cThis is something that has been really hard to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124232","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=124232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}