{"id":165601,"date":"2023-06-11T23:28:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T04:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/a-gamma-ray-explosion-that-was-so-bright-it-blinded-scientists-equipment-is-even-weirder-than-first-thought"},"modified":"2023-06-11T23:28:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T04:28:46","slug":"a-gamma-ray-explosion-that-was-so-bright-it-blinded-scientists-equipment-is-even-weirder-than-first-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/a-gamma-ray-explosion-that-was-so-bright-it-blinded-scientists-equipment-is-even-weirder-than-first-thought","title":{"rendered":"A gamma-ray explosion that was so bright it blinded scientists\u2019 equipment is even weirder than first thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-gamma-ray-explosion-that-was-so-bright-it-blinded-scientists-equipment-is-even-weirder-than-first-thought.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/brightest-gamma-ray-burst-all-time-blinded-scientist-space-equipment-2023-3?r=US&IR=T\" rel=\"\">brightest gamma-ray explosion<\/a> ever caught on record, which was so bright it blinded scientific instruments, just got weirder.<\/p>\n<p>GRB 221,009, first spotted in October 2022, outshone other cosmic explosions on record by \u201cnot just a little bit, but a hundred times,\u201d George Washington University graduate student Brendan O\u2019Connor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/991396?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">said<\/a> in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion earned the nickname BOAT for \u201cBrightest of All Time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brightest gamma-ray explosion ever caught on record, which was so bright it blinded scientific instruments, just got weirder. GRB 221,009, first spotted in October 2022, outshone other cosmic explosions on record by \u201cnot just a little bit, but a hundred times,\u201d George Washington University graduate student Brendan O\u2019Connor said in a press release. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165601","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}