{"id":148373,"date":"2022-10-17T23:22:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T04:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/its-the-boat-astronomers-observe-brightest-of-all-time-gamma-ray-burst"},"modified":"2022-10-17T23:22:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T04:22:56","slug":"its-the-boat-astronomers-observe-brightest-of-all-time-gamma-ray-burst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/its-the-boat-astronomers-observe-brightest-of-all-time-gamma-ray-burst","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the BOAT: Astronomers observe \u201cbrightest of all time\u201d gamma-ray burst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/its-the-boat-astronomers-observe-brightest-of-all-time-gamma-ray-burst.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the morning of October 9, multiple space-based detectors picked up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2022\/nasa-s-swift-fermi-missions-detect-exceptional-cosmic-blast\">powerful gamma-ray burst<\/a> (GRB) passing through our solar system, sending astronomers around the world scrambling to train their telescopes on that part of the sky to collect vital data on the event and its afterglow. Dubbed GRB 221009A, <a href=\"https:\/\/noirlab.edu\/public\/news\/noirlab2224\/?lang\">astronomers say<\/a> the gamma-ray burst is the most powerful yet recorded and likely could be the \u201cbirth cry\u201d of a new black hole. The event was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astronomerstelegram.org\/?read=15650\">promptly published<\/a> in the Astronomer\u2019s Telegram, and observations are still ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our research group, we\u2019ve been referring to this burst as the \u2018BOAT,\u2019 or Brightest Of All Time, because when you look at the thousands of bursts gamma-ray telescopes have been detecting since the 1990s, this one stands apart,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/noirlab.edu\/public\/news\/noirlab2224\/?lang\">Jillian Rastinejad<\/a>, a graduate student at Northwestern University. Rastinejad led one of two independent teams using the <a href=\"https:\/\/noirlab.edu\/public\/programs\/gemini-observatory\/gemini-south\/\">Gemini South<\/a> telescope in Chile to study the event\u2019s afterglow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis burst is much closer than typical GRBs, which is exciting because it allows us to detect many details that otherwise would be too faint to see,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2022\/nasa-s-swift-fermi-missions-detect-exceptional-cosmic-blast\">said Roberta Pillera<\/a>, a graduate student at the Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy, and member of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Collaboration. \u201cBut it\u2019s also among the most energetic and luminous bursts ever seen regardless of distance, making it doubly exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the morning of October 9, multiple space-based detectors picked up a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB) passing through our solar system, sending astronomers around the world scrambling to train their telescopes on that part of the sky to collect vital data on the event and its afterglow. Dubbed GRB 221009A, astronomers say the gamma-ray burst [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148373","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=148373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}