{"id":149975,"date":"2022-11-11T23:24:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T05:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/black-holes-dont-always-power-gamma-ray-bursts-new-research-shows"},"modified":"2022-11-11T23:24:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T05:24:32","slug":"black-holes-dont-always-power-gamma-ray-bursts-new-research-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/black-holes-dont-always-power-gamma-ray-bursts-new-research-shows","title":{"rendered":"Black holes don\u2019t always power gamma-ray bursts, new research shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/black-holes-dont-always-power-gamma-ray-bursts-new-research-shows2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been detected by satellites orbiting Earth as luminous flashes of the most energetic gamma-ray radiation lasting milliseconds to hundreds of seconds. These catastrophic blasts occur in distant galaxies, billions of light years from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>A sub-type of GRB known as a short-duration GRB starts life when two neutron stars collide. These ultra-dense stars have the mass of our sun compressed down to half the size of a city like London, and in the final moments of their life, just before triggering a GRB, they generate ripples in space-time\u2014known to astronomers as gravitational waves.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, space scientists have largely agreed that the \u201cengine\u201d powering such energetic and short-lived bursts must always come from a newly formed black hole (a region of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/space-time\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">space-time<\/a> where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape from it). However, new research by an international team of astrophysicists, led by Dr. Nuria Jordana-Mitjans at the University of Bath, is challenging this scientific orthodoxy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been detected by satellites orbiting Earth as luminous flashes of the most energetic gamma-ray radiation lasting milliseconds to hundreds of seconds. These catastrophic blasts occur in distant galaxies, billions of light years from Earth. A sub-type of GRB known as a short-duration GRB starts life when two neutron stars collide. These [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149975","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}