{"id":155581,"date":"2023-01-16T12:24:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T18:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/astronomers-just-detected-the-furthest-atomic-hydrogen-signal-ever"},"modified":"2023-01-16T12:24:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T18:24:23","slug":"astronomers-just-detected-the-furthest-atomic-hydrogen-signal-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/astronomers-just-detected-the-furthest-atomic-hydrogen-signal-ever","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers just detected the furthest atomic hydrogen signal ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-just-detected-the-furthest-atomic-hydrogen-signal-ever2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is the most distant atomic hydrogen radio signal \u201cby a large margin\u201d and it could teach us a great deal about star formation.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers from McGill University in Canada and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru detected an atomic hydrogen radio signal originating 8.8 billion light-years from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>As the statement points out, \u201cthis is also the first confirmed detection of strong lensing of 21 cm emission from a galaxy.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Mint\/Getty.<\/p>\n<p>This makes it the most distant atomic hydrogen radio signal ever observed, a press statement reveals. They pinpointed the signal \u2014 with the aid of gravitational lensing \u2014 in data from the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in Pune, India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the most distant atomic hydrogen radio signal \u201cby a large margin\u201d and it could teach us a great deal about star formation. Astronomers from McGill University in Canada and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru detected an atomic hydrogen radio signal originating 8.8 billion light-years from Earth. As the statement points [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155581","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=155581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}