{"id":242940,"date":"2023-05-18T20:36:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T15:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=242940"},"modified":"2023-05-18T20:36:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T15:06:13","slug":"bl-lacertae-observations-from-11-global-telescopes-lead-to-detection-of-the-brightest-flare-of-a-century-old-blazar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bl-lacertae-observations-from-11-global-telescopes-lead-to-detection-of-the-brightest-flare-of-a-century-old-blazar\/","title":{"rendered":"BL Lacertae: Observations from 11 global telescopes lead to detection of the brightest flare of a century-old blazar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the articl<\/span>e <b>\u201c<\/b><b>Observations from 11 global telescopes lead to detection of the brightest flare of a century-old blazar<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> PIB <\/b>on <b>18th May 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The brightness of BL Lacertae (BL Lac), a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/binary-super-massive-black-hole-discovered-in-a-system-which-could-be-site-of-future-gravitational-waves-detection\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">blazar <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">discovered almost a century ago has been found to have reached its maxima.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is BL Lacertae (BL Lac)?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BL Lacertae object or BL Lac object is a type of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indian-astrophysicists-spot-rare-merger-of-three-jumbo-black-holes\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">active galactic nucleus(AGN).<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">located about 950 million light years from the Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Note: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are located in the core of the galaxy. They are compact structures showing anomalous luminosity from time to time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The deviation in their brightness levels can vary and last either for a few hours, days, weeks or even months.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 This luminosity variance, when seen with the naked human eye, is nothing but electromagnetic emissions that are visible across the radio, microwave, infrared, optical, ultraviolet, X-ray and gamma wavelengths.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What have researchers found about BL Lacertae (BL Lac)?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers found that the flare emanated from BL Lac had reached the maxima.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This was detected using the continuous observations made by an ensemble of eleven optical telescopes located across the world. One among them was the Himalayan Chandra Telescope located in Ladakh\u2019s Hanle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cObservations from 11 global telescopes lead to detection of the brightest flare of a century-old blazar\u201d published in PIB on 18th May 2023 What is the News? The brightness of BL Lacertae (BL Lac), a blazar discovered almost a century ago has been found to have reached&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bl-lacertae-observations-from-11-global-telescopes-lead-to-detection-of-the-brightest-flare-of-a-century-old-blazar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BL Lacertae: Observations from 11 global telescopes lead to detection of the brightest flare of a century-old blazar<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-242940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}