{"id":12709,"date":"2025-09-09T23:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T23:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/12709\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T23:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T23:04:06","slug":"scientists-baffled-by-powerful-long-lasting-gamma-ray-explosion-outside-our-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/12709\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists baffled by powerful, long-lasting gamma ray explosion outside our galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Scientists have discovered a gamma ray explosion outside our galaxy that&#8217;s not only exceptionally powerful, but also long-lasting.<\/p>\n<p>Telescopes on Earth and in space \u2014 including Hubble \u2014 have teamed up to study the unique explosion of high-energy radiation first observed in July. <\/p>\n<p>Astronomers reported Tuesday that it&#8217;s unlike anything they&#8217;ve witnessed before.<\/p>\n<p>The repeated bursts of gamma rays were detected over the course of a day, according to scientists. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s highly unusual since these kinds of bursts normally last just minutes or even milliseconds \u2014 rarely no more than a few hours \u2014 as dying stars collapse or are torn apart by black holes.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists said such a long and recurrent gamma ray explosion is puzzling \u2014 a cosmic whodunit, at least for now. <\/p>\n<p>More observations are needed to confirm its precise whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>The European-led team announced its findings in the Astrophysical Journal Letters in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Scientists have discovered a gamma ray explosion outside our galaxy that&#8217;s not only&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[15113,15112,15107,15109,15110,111,139,69,147,9433,392,15108,15111],"class_list":{"0":"post-12709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-astrophysical-journal-letters","9":"tag-cosmic-whodunit","10":"tag-gamma-ray-explosion","11":"tag-high-energy-radiation","12":"tag-hubble","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-scientists","18":"tag-space","19":"tag-telescopes","20":"tag-unusual-bursts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}