{"id":148506,"date":"2022-10-19T20:24:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T01:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/record-breaking-gamma-ray-burst-may-indicate-birth-of-a-black-hole"},"modified":"2022-10-19T20:24:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T01:24:53","slug":"record-breaking-gamma-ray-burst-may-indicate-birth-of-a-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/record-breaking-gamma-ray-burst-may-indicate-birth-of-a-black-hole","title":{"rendered":"Record-Breaking Gamma Ray Burst May Indicate Birth of a Black Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/record-breaking-gamma-ray-burst-may-indicate-birth-of-a-black-hole2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 9, an unimaginably powerful influx of X-rays and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/science\/space\/theres-been-a-huge-stellar-explosion-in-the-serpent-bearer-constellation\/\">gamma rays<\/a> infiltrated our solar system. It was likely the result of a massive explosion that happened 2.4 billion light-years away from Earth, and it has left the science community stunned.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the explosion, astrophysicists worldwide turned their telescopes toward the spectacular show, watching it unfold from a variety of cosmic vantage points \u2014 and as they vigilantly studied the event\u2019s glimmering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/science\/space\/worlds-largest-radio-telescope-captures-glowing-aftermath-of-stars-colliding\/\">afterglow<\/a> over the following week, they grew shocked by how utterly bright this gamma-ray burst seems to have been.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, the spectacle\u2019s sheer intensity earned it a fitting (very millennial) name to accompany its robotic title of GRB221009A: B.O.A.T. \u2014 the \u201cbrightest of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Oct. 9, an unimaginably powerful influx of X-rays and gamma rays infiltrated our solar system. It was likely the result of a massive explosion that happened 2.4 billion light-years away from Earth, and it has left the science community stunned. In the wake of the explosion, astrophysicists worldwide turned their telescopes toward the spectacular [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148506","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=148506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}