{"id":5201,"date":"2025-01-23T11:08:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T10:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/?p=5201"},"modified":"2025-02-05T11:29:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T10:29:31","slug":"safe-zones-are-coming-to-inaf-offices-media-inaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/safe-zones-are-coming-to-inaf-offices-media-inaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Einstein Probe detects strange cosmic explosion &#8211; Media INAF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Less than three months after its launch, the Einstein Probe telescope has discovered a burst of low-energy X-rays that could lead scientists to reconsider how gamma-ray bursts are emitted. The explosion in question lasted more than 17 minutes \u2013 the longest ever observed \u2013 and, strangely, only after six minutes did the gamma-ray burst appear. The details are in Nature Astronomy where we find among the signatories of the article our researcher Giancarlo Ghirlanda and ApJ Letters \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media.inaf.it\/2025\/01\/23\/einstein-probe-ep240315a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full story on Media INAF<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"570\" height=\"770\" src=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/EinsteinProbe-23-01-2025-ENG.png\" alt=\"The Einstein Probe detected the faint X-ray signal of the transient EP240315a long before its gamma-ray counterpart. This demonstrates the high sensitivity of its optics. Follow-up observations showed that the burst came from about 12.5 billion light-years away, starting its cosmic journey towards us when the universe was just 10 percent of its current age. Credit: Openverse\/ Einstein Probe Science Center\" class=\"wp-image-5207\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Einstein Probe detected the faint X-ray signal of the transient EP240315a long before its gamma-ray counterpart. This demonstrates the high sensitivity of its optics. Follow-up observations showed that the burst came from about 12.5 billion light-years away, starting its cosmic journey towards us when the universe was just 10 percent of its current age. Credit: Openverse\/ Einstein Probe Science Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than three months after its launch, the Einstein Probe telescope has discovered a burst of low-energy X-rays that could lead scientists to reconsider how gamma-ray bursts are emitted. The explosion in question lasted more than 17 minutes \u2013 the longest ever observed \u2013 and, strangely, only after six minutes did the gamma-ray burst appear. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[336],"class_list":["post-5201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-scientific-news","tag-einstein-probe"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/EinsteinProbe-23-01-2025-ENG.png",570,770,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/EinsteinProbe-23-01-2025-ENG.png",111,150,false],"medium":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/EinsteinProbe-23-01-2025-ENG.png",222,300,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/EinsteinProbe-23-01-2025-ENG.png",570,770,false],"large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/EinsteinProbe-23-01-2025-ENG.png",570,770,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/EinsteinProbe-23-01-2025-ENG.png",570,770,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/EinsteinProbe-23-01-2025-ENG.png",570,770,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>Less than three months after its launch, the Einstein Probe telescope has discovered a burst of low-energy X-rays that could lead scientists to reconsider how gamma-ray bursts are emitted. The explosion in question lasted more than 17 minutes \u2013 the longest ever observed \u2013 and, strangely, only after six minutes did the gamma-ray burst appear. The details are in Nature Astronomy where we find among the signatories of the article our researcher Giancarlo Ghirlanda and ApJ Letters \u2013 Read the full story on Media INAF The Einstein Probe detected the faint X-ray signal of the transient EP240315a long before its&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/scientific-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Scientific news<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"Maria Rosa Panzera","url":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/author\/maria-rosa-panzera\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5209,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions\/5209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}