{"id":218658,"date":"2025-07-24T20:09:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T01:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/brightest-gamma-ray-burst-hints-at-hidden-layers-in-cosmic-jet-formation"},"modified":"2025-07-24T20:09:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T01:09:37","slug":"brightest-gamma-ray-burst-hints-at-hidden-layers-in-cosmic-jet-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/brightest-gamma-ray-burst-hints-at-hidden-layers-in-cosmic-jet-formation","title":{"rendered":"Brightest gamma-ray burst hints at hidden layers in cosmic jet formation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brightest-gamma-ray-burst-hints-at-hidden-layers-in-cosmic-jet-formation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The international CTAO LST Collaboration has released remarkable findings from observations of GRB 221009A\u2014the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever recorded.<\/p>\n<p>The results were published in <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/2041-8213\/ade4cf\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Astrophysical Journal Letters<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The publication presents in-depth observations conducted in 2022 with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctao.org\/emission-to-discovery\/telescopes\/lst\/\" target=\"_blank\">Large-Sized Telescope (LST<\/a>) prototype, the LST-1, during its commissioning phase at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctao.org\/emission-to-discovery\/array-sites\/ctao-north\/\" target=\"_blank\">CTAO-North<\/a> site in La Palma, Spain. The observations revealed a hint of an excess in the gamma-ray flux, which helps provide new insights into the enigmatic and complex nature of GRBs at very high energies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The international CTAO LST Collaboration has released remarkable findings from observations of GRB 221009A\u2014the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever recorded. The results were published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The publication presents in-depth observations conducted in 2022 with the Large-Sized Telescope (LST) prototype, the LST-1, during its commissioning phase at the Roque de los Muchachos [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218658","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}