{"id":179503,"date":"2023-12-30T07:23:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T13:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/scientists-propose-new-explanation-for-impossible-gamma-ray-burst"},"modified":"2023-12-30T07:23:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T13:23:11","slug":"scientists-propose-new-explanation-for-impossible-gamma-ray-burst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/scientists-propose-new-explanation-for-impossible-gamma-ray-burst","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Propose New Explanation for \u201cImpossible\u201d Gamma-Ray Burst"},"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\/Uqvrkrrx2cA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In 2022, scientists from <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/northwestern-university\/\">Northwestern University<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/surprise-kilonova-discovery-shakes-up-long-gamma-ray-burst-theory\/\">presented novel observational data indicating that long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) might originate from the collision of a neutron star with another dense celestial body, such as another neutron star or a black hole \u2014 a finding that was previously believed to be impossible.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, another Northwestern team offers a potential explanation for what generated the unprecedented and incredibly luminous burst of light.<\/p>\n<p>After developing the first numerical simulation that follows the jet evolution in a black hole \u2014 neutron star merger out to large distances, the astrophysicists discovered that the post-merger black hole can launch jets of material from the swallowed neutron star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2022, scientists from Northwestern University presented novel observational data indicating that long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) might originate from the collision of a neutron star with another dense celestial body, such as another neutron star or a black hole \u2014 a finding that was previously believed to be impossible. Now, another Northwestern team offers a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,385,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-evolution","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179503","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}