{"id":226826,"date":"2025-12-10T01:40:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/student-researcher-leads-discovery-of-fastest-gamma-ray-burst-ever-recorded"},"modified":"2025-12-10T01:40:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:40:45","slug":"student-researcher-leads-discovery-of-fastest-gamma-ray-burst-ever-recorded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/student-researcher-leads-discovery-of-fastest-gamma-ray-burst-ever-recorded","title":{"rendered":"Student researcher leads discovery of fastest gamma-ray burst ever recorded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/student-researcher-leads-discovery-of-fastest-gamma-ray-burst-ever-recorded.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sarah Dalessi, a fifth-year student in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, is the lead author of a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/1538-4357\/ae0a1d\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>The Astrophysical Journal<\/i> detailing the discovery of the fastest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever recorded.<\/p>\n<p>GRB 230307A is a gamma-ray burst in the ultrarelativistic category, meaning the velocity of the GRB\u2019s jet, a focused beam of high-energy particles and photons, came within 99.99998% of the speed of light\u2014186,000 miles per second\u2014making it the fastest GRB ever observed. The observation was made possible with data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor, one of two instruments on NASA\u2019s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Lorentz factor is the measure of speed of the jet here, and 1,600 is the highest we ever measured,\u201d explains Dr. Peter Veres, an assistant professor who works in the UAH Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) and is co-author on the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Dalessi, a fifth-year student in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, is the lead author of a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal detailing the discovery of the fastest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever recorded. GRB 230307A is a gamma-ray burst [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226826","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=226826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}