{"id":137971,"date":"2022-04-11T01:29:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T06:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/astronomers-detect-a-powerful-space-laser-that-is-5-billion-light-years-away"},"modified":"2022-04-11T01:29:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T06:29:01","slug":"astronomers-detect-a-powerful-space-laser-that-is-5-billion-light-years-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/astronomers-detect-a-powerful-space-laser-that-is-5-billion-light-years-away","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers detect a powerful space laser that is 5 billion light-years away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-detect-a-powerful-space-laser-that-is-5-billion-light-years-away.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of astronomers led by Dr. Marcin Glowacki, who previously worked at the Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy and the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, has made an impressive discovery from 5 billion light-years away, according to <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.icrar.org\/megamaser\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">a statement<\/a> released by the institution on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Using the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa, the researchers discovered a powerful radio-wave laser, called a \u2018megamaser\u2019, that is the most distant megamaser of its kind ever detected. Its light has traveled 58 thousand billion billion (58 followed by 21 zeros) kilometers to Earth.<\/p>\n<p><b> When galaxies collide\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n<p>How did it come to be? Megamasers occur when two galaxies violently collide in the Universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of astronomers led by Dr. Marcin Glowacki, who previously worked at the Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy and the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, has made an impressive discovery from 5 billion light-years away, according to a statement released by the institution on Thursday. Using the MeerKAT telescope [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137971","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}