{"id":98844,"date":"2019-11-20T16:43:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T00:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/scientists-detected-the-brightest-light-in-the-universe-for-the-first-time-following-a-mysterious-explosion-in-space"},"modified":"2019-11-20T16:43:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T00:43:14","slug":"scientists-detected-the-brightest-light-in-the-universe-for-the-first-time-following-a-mysterious-explosion-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/scientists-detected-the-brightest-light-in-the-universe-for-the-first-time-following-a-mysterious-explosion-in-space","title":{"rendered":"Scientists detected the brightest light in the universe for the first time, following a mysterious explosion in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-detected-the-brightest-light-in-the-universe-for-the-first-time-following-a-mysterious-explosion-in-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gamma-ray bursts appear without warning and only last a few seconds, so astronomers had to move quickly. Just 50 seconds after satellites spotted the January explosion, telescopes on Earth swiveled to catch a flood of thousands of particles of light.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are by far the highest-energy photons ever discovered from a gamma-ray burst,\u201d Elisa Bernardini, a gamma-ray scientist, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desy.de\/news\/news_search\/index_eng.html?openDirectAnchor=1735&two_columns=0\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Over 300 scientists around the world studied the results; their work was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-019-1754-6\">published<\/a> Wednesday in the journal Nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamma-ray bursts appear without warning and only last a few seconds, so astronomers had to move quickly. Just 50 seconds after satellites spotted the January explosion, telescopes on Earth swiveled to catch a flood of thousands of particles of light. \u201cThese are by far the highest-energy photons ever discovered from a gamma-ray burst,\u201d Elisa Bernardini, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98844","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=98844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}