{"id":194166,"date":"2024-08-06T20:24:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T01:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/signal-buried-in-biggest-explosion-ever-seen-hints-at-total-annihilation"},"modified":"2024-08-06T20:24:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T01:24:43","slug":"signal-buried-in-biggest-explosion-ever-seen-hints-at-total-annihilation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/signal-buried-in-biggest-explosion-ever-seen-hints-at-total-annihilation","title":{"rendered":"Signal Buried in Biggest Explosion Ever Seen Hints at Total Annihilation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/signal-buried-in-biggest-explosion-ever-seen-hints-at-total-annihilation.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every now and again, the night sky lights up with a spectacular explosion that blazes with the most energetic light our Universe can produce. Known as gamma-ray bursts, they can release in a few seconds what our Sun will emit over its lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>Now scientists have found a never-before-seen signal buried in the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation delivered by the brightest gamma ray burst ever recorded.<\/p>\n<p>That signal is an emission light \u2013 a bright region in the gamma-ray spectrum produced by something emitting light in that specific wavelength range. And that something, scientists have determined, is complete and utter destruction: the mutual annihilation of electron-positron pairs, matter and its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/antimatter\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">antimatter<\/a> counterpart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and again, the night sky lights up with a spectacular explosion that blazes with the most energetic light our Universe can produce. Known as gamma-ray bursts, they can release in a few seconds what our Sun will emit over its lifetime. Now scientists have found a never-before-seen signal buried in the spectrum of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194166","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=194166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}