{"id":148286,"date":"2022-10-16T13:24:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T18:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/astronomers-just-spotted-the-most-powerful-flash-of-light-ever-seen"},"modified":"2022-10-16T13:24:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T18:24:04","slug":"astronomers-just-spotted-the-most-powerful-flash-of-light-ever-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/astronomers-just-spotted-the-most-powerful-flash-of-light-ever-seen","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers just spotted the most powerful flash of light ever seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-just-spotted-the-most-powerful-flash-of-light-ever-seen.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers just detected what may be the most powerful flash of light ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/gamma-ray-burst.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> gamma-ray burst<\/a>, the most energetic type of electromagnetic explosion known to exist in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/52-the-expanding-universe-from-the-big-bang-to-today.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> universe<\/a>, was first spotted by telescopes Sunday (Oct. 9).<\/p>\n<p>Gamma-ray bursts, which were discovered accidentally by U.S. military satellites in the 1960s, are likely produced when giant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/57-stars-formation-classification-and-constellations.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> stars<\/a> explode at the ends of their lives before collapsing into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/15421-black-holes-facts-formation-discovery-sdcmp.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> black holes<\/a>, or when ultradense stellar remnants known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/22180-neutron-stars.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> neutron stars<\/a> collide. Within seconds, these explosions unleash as much energy as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/58-the-sun-formation-facts-and-characteristics.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> sun<\/a> will emit during its entire 10-billion-year lifetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers just detected what may be the most powerful flash of light ever seen. The so-called gamma-ray burst, the most energetic type of electromagnetic explosion known to exist in the universe, was first spotted by telescopes Sunday (Oct. 9). Gamma-ray bursts, which were discovered accidentally by U.S. military satellites in the 1960s, are likely produced [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148286","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=148286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}