{"id":155199,"date":"2023-01-11T14:28:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T20:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-detect-superheavy-neutron-star-that-existed-for-only-a-fraction-of-a-second"},"modified":"2023-01-11T14:28:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T20:28:38","slug":"scientists-detect-superheavy-neutron-star-that-existed-for-only-a-fraction-of-a-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-detect-superheavy-neutron-star-that-existed-for-only-a-fraction-of-a-second","title":{"rendered":"Scientists detect superheavy neutron star that existed for only a fraction of a second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IMcU2m5YbFE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A mix of computer simulations and gamma-ray burst observations shed new light on merging neutron stars.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers trawled through archival observations of short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and detected the rapid evolution of two merging neutron stars into a superheavy neutron star, which then collapsed into a black hole.<\/p>\n<p>Two neutron stars merge to create a black hole.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA<\/p>\n<p>This entire process lasted only a fraction of a second, a blog post from NASA explains, and it can teach us a great deal about the transient nature of neutron stars and the evolution of colossal black holes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-detect-superheavy-neutron-star-that-existed-for-only-a-fraction-of-a-second\">Continue reading \u201cScientists detect superheavy neutron star that existed for only a fraction of a second\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mix of computer simulations and gamma-ray burst observations shed new light on merging neutron stars. Astronomers trawled through archival observations of short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and detected the rapid evolution of two merging neutron stars into a superheavy neutron star, which then collapsed into a black hole. Two neutron stars merge to create a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155199","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=155199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}