Multiple space and ground-based telescopes witnessed one of the brightest explosions in space when it reached Earth on October 9. The gamma ray burst may be one of the most powerful ever recorded by telescopes.
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Multiple space and ground-based telescopes witnessed one of the brightest explosions in space when it reached Earth on October 9. The burst may be one of the most powerful ever recorded by telescopes. Gamma-ray bursts, or GRBs, are the most powerful class of explosions in the universe, according to NASA.
Billions of years after traveling across space, the black hole’s detonation finally reached our corner of the universe last week. Studying an event like this can reveal more details about the collapse of stars, how matter interacts near the speed of light and what conditions may be like in distant galaxies. Astronomers estimate that such a bright a gamma ray burst may not appear again for decades.
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