{"id":191753,"date":"2024-06-25T10:29:57","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T15:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/the-universes-biggest-explosions-made-elements-we-are-composed-of-but-theres-another-mystery-source-out-there"},"modified":"2024-06-25T10:29:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T15:29:57","slug":"the-universes-biggest-explosions-made-elements-we-are-composed-of-but-theres-another-mystery-source-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/the-universes-biggest-explosions-made-elements-we-are-composed-of-but-theres-another-mystery-source-out-there","title":{"rendered":"The Universe\u2019s Biggest Explosions made Elements we are Composed of, but there\u2019s Another Mystery Source out there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-universes-biggest-explosions-made-elements-we-are-composed-of-but-theres-another-mystery-source-out-there2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After its \u201cbirth\u201d in the Big Bang, the universe consisted mainly of hydrogen and a few helium atoms. These are the lightest elements in the periodic table. More-or-less all elements heavier than helium were produced in the 13.8 billion years between the Big Bang and the present day.<\/p>\n<p>Stars have produced many of these heavier elements through the process of nuclear fusion. However, this only makes elements as heavy as iron. The creation of any heavier elements would consume energy instead of releasing it.<\/p>\n<p>In order to explain the presence of these heavier elements today, it\u2019s necessary to find phenomena that can produce them. One type of event that fits the bill is a gamma-ray burst (GRB)\u2014the most powerful class of explosion in the universe. These can erupt with a quintillion (10 followed by 18 zeros) times the luminosity of our sun, and are thought to be caused by several types of event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After its \u201cbirth\u201d in the Big Bang, the universe consisted mainly of hydrogen and a few helium atoms. These are the lightest elements in the periodic table. More-or-less all elements heavier than helium were produced in the 13.8 billion years between the Big Bang and the present day. Stars have produced many of these heavier [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,33,873,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-cosmology","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191753","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}