{"id":83351,"date":"2018-10-07T13:22:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T20:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/astronomers-are-getting-excited-over-ghostly-traces-of-a-massive-cosmic-explosion"},"modified":"2018-10-07T17:00:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T00:00:23","slug":"astronomers-are-getting-excited-over-ghostly-traces-of-a-massive-cosmic-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/astronomers-are-getting-excited-over-ghostly-traces-of-a-massive-cosmic-explosion","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Are Getting Excited Over Ghostly Traces of a Massive Cosmic Explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-are-getting-excited-over-ghostly-traces-of-a-massive-cosmic-explosion.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A comparison of surveys taken of the sky years apart has revealed an empty space where a star 280 million light years away once sat.<\/p>\n<p>Coded FIRST J1419+3940, records of the object hint at what would have been a violent death. Curiously, no trace of its final explosive moments can be found \u2013 but this ghostly silence has only made astronomers all the more excited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe compared images from old maps of the sky and found one radio source that was no longer visible today in the Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS),\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dunlap.utoronto.ca\/astronomers-discover-sonic-boom-from-powerful-unseen-explosion\/\">says astronomer Casey Law<\/a> from the University of California, Berkeley.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/first-orphan-gamma-ray-bursts-shock-wave-discovery\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/first-orphan-gamma-ray-bursts-shock-wave-discovery<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A comparison of surveys taken of the sky years apart has revealed an empty space where a star 280 million light years away once sat. Coded FIRST J1419+3940, records of the object hint at what would have been a violent death. Curiously, no trace of its final explosive moments can be found \u2013 but this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83351","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=83351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83374,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83351\/revisions\/83374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}