{"id":148164,"date":"2022-10-14T11:25:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T16:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/matter-ejected-from-crashing-neutron-stars-appeared-to-break-light-speed"},"modified":"2022-10-14T11:25:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T16:25:24","slug":"matter-ejected-from-crashing-neutron-stars-appeared-to-break-light-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/matter-ejected-from-crashing-neutron-stars-appeared-to-break-light-speed","title":{"rendered":"Matter Ejected From Crashing Neutron Stars Appeared to Break Light Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/matter-ejected-from-crashing-neutron-stars-appeared-to-break-light-speed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When astronomers around the world watched the epic collision between two neutron stars in 2017, the main event was just the beginning. The after-effects, both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/neutron-star-collision-gamma-ray-burst-aftershock-getting-brighter\">immediate<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/we-might-have-seen-the-afterglow-of-a-neutron-star-kilonova-explosion\">longer-term<\/a>, of such a massive, never-before-seen merger were bound to be exciting, interesting, and deeply informative.<\/p>\n<p>And now scientists have revealed a doozy. As the two neutron stars slammed together, they ejected a jet of material that, to our eyes, appeared to blast into space at seven times the speed of light.<\/p>\n<p>This, of course, is impossible, according to our current understanding of physics. It\u2019s a phenomenon known as superluminal speed, which in spite of its name is actually an illusion based on our viewing angle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When astronomers around the world watched the epic collision between two neutron stars in 2017, the main event was just the beginning. The after-effects, both immediate and longer-term, of such a massive, never-before-seen merger were bound to be exciting, interesting, and deeply informative. And now scientists have revealed a doozy. As the two neutron stars [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148164","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}