{"id":186516,"date":"2024-04-01T00:23:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T05:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/scientists-ignited-a-thermonuclear-explosion-inside-a-supercomputer"},"modified":"2024-04-01T00:23:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T05:23:45","slug":"scientists-ignited-a-thermonuclear-explosion-inside-a-supercomputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/scientists-ignited-a-thermonuclear-explosion-inside-a-supercomputer","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Ignited a Thermonuclear Explosion Inside a Supercomputer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-ignited-a-thermonuclear-explosion-inside-a-supercomputer3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Computer simulations are giving us new insight into the riotous behavior of cannibal neutron stars.<\/p>\n<p>When a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/neutron-stars\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">neutron star<\/a> slurps up material from a close binary companion, the unstable thermonuclear burning of that accumulated material can produce a wild explosion that sends X-radiation bursting across the Universe.<\/p>\n<p>How exactly these powerful eruptions evolve and spread across the surface of a neutron star is something of a mystery. But by trying to replicate the observed X-ray flares using simulations, scientists are learning more about their ins and outs \u2013 as well as the ultra-dense neutron stars that produce them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer simulations are giving us new insight into the riotous behavior of cannibal neutron stars. When a neutron star slurps up material from a close binary companion, the unstable thermonuclear burning of that accumulated material can produce a wild explosion that sends X-radiation bursting across the Universe. How exactly these powerful eruptions evolve and spread [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186516","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=186516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}