{"id":171007,"date":"2023-08-31T17:27:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T22:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/earth-has-been-hit-by-an-impossible-blast-of-light-scientists-now-know-how"},"modified":"2023-08-31T17:27:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T22:27:43","slug":"earth-has-been-hit-by-an-impossible-blast-of-light-scientists-now-know-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/earth-has-been-hit-by-an-impossible-blast-of-light-scientists-now-know-how","title":{"rendered":"Earth has been hit by an \u2018impossible\u2019 blast of light. Scientists now know how"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earth-has-been-hit-by-an-impossible-blast-of-light-scientists-now-know-how2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists believe they have found an explanation for an \u201cimpossible\u201d blast of energy that hit Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, scientists reported that they had seen evidence that gamma-ray bursts could come out of mergers between neutron stars and another compact object, in the form of a neutron star or black hole. That was previously thought not to be possible.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists had initially thought that the 50-second blast came when a massive star collapsed, but further work looking at the afterglow of the emission showed that it was in fact a \u201ckilonova\u201d, which happens when neutron stars merge with other compact objects. Previously, it was thought that only a supernova could make a long gamma-ray burst of that kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists believe they have found an explanation for an \u201cimpossible\u201d blast of energy that hit Earth. Last year, scientists reported that they had seen evidence that gamma-ray bursts could come out of mergers between neutron stars and another compact object, in the form of a neutron star or black hole. That was previously thought not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171007","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}