{"id":124671,"date":"2021-07-07T12:27:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T19:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/mystery-star-explained-by-new-type-of-massive-cosmic-explosion-10x-more-energetic-than-a-supernova"},"modified":"2021-07-07T12:27:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T19:27:32","slug":"mystery-star-explained-by-new-type-of-massive-cosmic-explosion-10x-more-energetic-than-a-supernova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/mystery-star-explained-by-new-type-of-massive-cosmic-explosion-10x-more-energetic-than-a-supernova","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Star Explained by New Type of Massive Cosmic Explosion \u2013 10x More Energetic Than a Supernova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mystery-star-explained-by-new-type-of-massive-cosmic-explosion-10x-more-energetic-than-a-supernova.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Magneto-rotational hypernova\u2019 soon after the Big Bang fuelled high levels of uranium, zinc in ancient stellar oddity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A massive explosion from a previously unknown source \u2014 10 times more energetic than a supernova \u2014 could be the answer to a 13-billion-year-old Milky Way mystery.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers led by David Yong, Gary Da Costa and Chiaki Kobayashi from Australia\u2019s ARC Centre of Excellence in All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) based at the Australian National University (ANU) have potentially discovered the first evidence of the destruction of a collapsed rapidly spinning star \u2014 a phenomenon they describe as a \u201cmagneto-rotational hypernova\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Magneto-rotational hypernova\u2019 soon after the Big Bang fuelled high levels of uranium, zinc in ancient stellar oddity. A massive explosion from a previously unknown source \u2014 10 times more energetic than a supernova \u2014 could be the answer to a 13-billion-year-old Milky Way mystery. Astronomers led by David Yong, Gary Da Costa and Chiaki Kobayashi [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124671","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}