{"id":152226,"date":"2022-12-08T15:31:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T21:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/new-information-about-long-gamma-rays-shatters-astrophysicists-theory"},"modified":"2022-12-08T15:31:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T21:31:03","slug":"new-information-about-long-gamma-rays-shatters-astrophysicists-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/new-information-about-long-gamma-rays-shatters-astrophysicists-theory","title":{"rendered":"New information about long gamma-rays shatters astrophysicists\u2019 theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-information-about-long-gamma-rays-shatters-astrophysicists-theory2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Until now, it was thought they came from massive star collapses.<\/p>\n<p>Astrophysicists around the world may be shocked to learn that long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) do not solely come from the collapse of massive stars. A new study by astrophysicists at Northwestern University upends the long-standing belief, uncovering new evidence that at least some long GRBs can result from neutron star mergers, which were previously believed to produce only short GRBs, the university\u2019s publication reported.<\/p>\n<p>It all began in December 2021 when the team detected a 50-second-long GRB (any GRB longer than 2 seconds is considered \u2018long\u2019).<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Aaron M. Geller\/Northwestern\/CIERA and IT Research Computing Services.<\/p>\n<p>A new study by astrophysicists at Northwestern University upends the long-standing belief, uncovering new evidence that at least some long GRBs can result from neutron star mergers, which were previously believed to produce only short GRBs, the university\u2019s publication reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until now, it was thought they came from massive star collapses. Astrophysicists around the world may be shocked to learn that long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) do not solely come from the collapse of massive stars. A new study by astrophysicists at Northwestern University upends the long-standing belief, uncovering new evidence that at least some long [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152226","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}