{"id":98035,"date":"2019-10-31T14:44:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T21:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/researchers-discover-mechanisms-for-the-cause-of-the-big-bang"},"modified":"2019-10-31T14:44:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T21:44:31","slug":"researchers-discover-mechanisms-for-the-cause-of-the-big-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/researchers-discover-mechanisms-for-the-cause-of-the-big-bang","title":{"rendered":"Researchers discover mechanisms for the cause of the Big Bang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-discover-mechanisms-for-the-cause-of-the-big-bang2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The origin of the universe started with the Big Bang, but how the supernova explosion ignited has long been a mystery\u2014until now.<\/p>\n<p>In a new paper appearing today in <i>Science<\/i> magazine, researchers detailed the mechanisms that could cause the explosion, which is key for the models that scientists use to understand the origin of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe defined the critical criteria where we can drive a flame to self-generate its own turbulence, spontaneously accelerate, and transition into detonation,\u201d says Kareem Ahmed, an assistant professor in UCF\u2019s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and co-author of the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The origin of the universe started with the Big Bang, but how the supernova explosion ignited has long been a mystery\u2014until now. In a new paper appearing today in Science magazine, researchers detailed the mechanisms that could cause the explosion, which is key for the models that scientists use to understand the origin of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98035","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}