{"id":203408,"date":"2025-01-09T03:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T09:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/gamma-ray-outburst-detected-from-the-radio-source-3c-216"},"modified":"2025-01-09T03:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T09:37:07","slug":"gamma-ray-outburst-detected-from-the-radio-source-3c-216","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/gamma-ray-outburst-detected-from-the-radio-source-3c-216","title":{"rendered":"Gamma-ray outburst detected from the radio source 3C 216"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gamma-ray-outburst-detected-from-the-radio-source-3c-2163.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using NASA\u2019s Fermi space telescope, Italian astronomers have observed a radio source known as 3C 216. As a result, they detected increased gamma-ray activity from this source, including a strong outburst. The finding is reported in a research paper <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2501.00582\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> on the <i>arXiv<\/i> preprint server.<\/p>\n<p>3C 216 is an extragalactic radio source at a redshift of approximately 0.67, with a projected linear size of about 182,500 light years. It has an overall steep radio spectrum and a relatively compact morphology. Therefore, it is classified as a compact steep spectrum (CSS) object.<\/p>\n<p>Previous observations of 3C 216 have found that it is a radio galaxy consisting of a central component surrounded by a more extended structure, and has an inner relativistic jet. It turns out that this galaxy is associated with <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/gamma-ray\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gamma-ray<\/a> source 4FGL J0910.0+4257.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using NASA\u2019s Fermi space telescope, Italian astronomers have observed a radio source known as 3C 216. As a result, they detected increased gamma-ray activity from this source, including a strong outburst. The finding is reported in a research paper published on the arXiv preprint server. 3C 216 is an extragalactic radio source at a redshift [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203408","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=203408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}