{"id":152163,"date":"2022-12-08T09:23:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T15:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/astronomers-have-just-watched-the-most-powerful-explosion-ever-seen"},"modified":"2022-12-08T09:23:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T15:23:04","slug":"astronomers-have-just-watched-the-most-powerful-explosion-ever-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/astronomers-have-just-watched-the-most-powerful-explosion-ever-seen","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers have just watched the most powerful explosion ever seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-have-just-watched-the-most-powerful-explosion-ever-seen2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This type of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2262665-we-may-have-seen-a-huge-explosion-in-the-oldest-galaxy-in-the-universe\/\">gamma ray burst<\/a> (GRB) is thought to occur when a massive star explodes in a supernova, leaving behind a black hole. The explosion creates an extraordinary jet of light which makes up the GRB itself, and then the supernova causes a dimmer afterglow. This particular GRB appears so bright partially because it is about 2.4 billion light years away from Earth, making it one of the closest GRBs ever spotted in addition to being the brightest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we look at all of the gamma ray bursts that have been detected, this one stands apart,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/ciera.northwestern.edu\/directory\/jillian-rastinejad\/\">Jillian Rastinejad<\/a> at Northwestern University in Illinois. \u201cInformally, we\u2019ve been calling it the BOAT \u2013 the brightest of all time.\u201d She and her colleagues calculated that a GRB this bright is expected to occur only once every thousand years or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This type of gamma ray burst (GRB) is thought to occur when a massive star explodes in a supernova, leaving behind a black hole. The explosion creates an extraordinary jet of light which makes up the GRB itself, and then the supernova causes a dimmer afterglow. This particular GRB appears so bright partially because it [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152163","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=152163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}