{"id":193688,"date":"2024-07-28T08:22:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T13:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/a-flash-like-no-other-nasas-fermi-detects-unique-energy-peak-in-unprecedented-gamma-ray-burst"},"modified":"2024-07-28T08:22:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T13:22:46","slug":"a-flash-like-no-other-nasas-fermi-detects-unique-energy-peak-in-unprecedented-gamma-ray-burst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/a-flash-like-no-other-nasas-fermi-detects-unique-energy-peak-in-unprecedented-gamma-ray-burst","title":{"rendered":"A Flash Like No Other: NASA\u2019s Fermi Detects Unique Energy Peak in Unprecedented 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\/aXHOtFEmUIc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Utilizing data from NASA \u2019s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, researchers discovered a unique energy peak in the aftermath of the brightest Gamma-Ray burst ever seen, suggesting the annihilation of electrons and positrons. This finding provides new insights into the behavior of cosmic jets and the extreme conditions following such bursts.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2022, astronomers were stunned by what was quickly dubbed the BOAT \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/solar-system-hit-by-pulse-of-intense-radiation-incredible-1-in-10000-year-gamma-ray-burst\/\">brightest-of-all-time gamma-ray burst (GRB)<\/a>. Now an international science team reports that data from <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/fermi-gamma-ray-space-telescope\/\">NASA\u2019s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope<\/a> reveals a feature never seen before.<\/p>\n<p>Unprecedented Spectral Feature Identified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utilizing data from NASA \u2019s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, researchers discovered a unique energy peak in the aftermath of the brightest Gamma-Ray burst ever seen, suggesting the annihilation of electrons and positrons. This finding provides new insights into the behavior of cosmic jets and the extreme conditions following such bursts. In October 2022, astronomers were [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193688","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=193688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}