{"id":167806,"date":"2023-07-19T12:25:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T17:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/researchers-operating-gamma-ray-burst-monitor-discover-brightest-gamma-ray-burst-ever-detected"},"modified":"2023-07-19T12:25:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T17:25:34","slug":"researchers-operating-gamma-ray-burst-monitor-discover-brightest-gamma-ray-burst-ever-detected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/researchers-operating-gamma-ray-burst-monitor-discover-brightest-gamma-ray-burst-ever-detected","title":{"rendered":"Researchers operating Gamma-ray Burst Monitor discover brightest gamma-ray burst ever detected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-operating-gamma-ray-burst-monitor-discover-brightest-gamma-ray-burst-ever-detected2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has announced that three researchers associated with the UAH Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) have discovered a gamma-ray burst (GRB) approximately 2.4 billion light-years away in the constellation Sagitta that ranks as the brightest ever observed. Believed to have been triggered by collapse of a massive star, it is accompanied by a supernova explosion, giving birth to a black hole.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Peter Veres, an assistant professor with CSPAR, Dr. Michael S. Briggs, CSPAR principal research scientist and assistant director, and Stephen Lesage, a UAH graduate research assistant, collaborated on the discovery and analysis of the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/gamma-ray+burst\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gamma-ray burst<\/a>. The researchers operate the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) at UAH, a part of the University of Alabama System.<\/p>\n<p>The GBM is an instrument in low-Earth orbit aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope that can see the entire <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/gamma-ray\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gamma-ray<\/a> sky not blocked by the Earth and hunts for GRBs as part of its main program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has announced that three researchers associated with the UAH Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) have discovered a gamma-ray burst (GRB) approximately 2.4 billion light-years away in the constellation Sagitta that ranks as the brightest ever observed. Believed to have been triggered by collapse of a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167806","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}