Posted on 11/20/2019 1:35:07 PM PST by C19fan
A brief but extremely powerful cosmic blast from a distance galaxy has taken the record for the brightest light ever seen from Earth.
It was emitted by a gamma ray burst seven billion light-years away and created more energy in a few seconds than the sun will burn in its 10 billion year lifetime.
The discovery, led by researchers from Curtin University in Western Australia involved more than 300 scientists from around the world.
Gamma-ray bursts are the most energetic events in the universe - the most massive since the Big Bang, says co author of the study, Dr Gemma Anderson.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
maybe we’ll all turn into The Hulk
that could be fun
I see this headline every couple of years. LoL!!!
Who’s got the Bette Davis gif?
Seven billion light years away ..... must have taken a while for the light of the burst to get here. Another bang from long long long ago ....
Since we saw it it’s probably for the best that it was so far away.
That’s Swalwell’s richochet!!!
What we see here, finally, is the explosion of the Death Star, which demise was long ago ... in a galaxy far far away ...
Gamma rays are safely seen from far, far, far, far, away.................or even farther................
It would've take seven billion years
LOL
Makes sense. Good thing we have video and film
If you can see it today, you survived it. I think.
“Biggest explosion since the Big Bang”
Hope no one confuses this with the Swalwell Incident.
Everything in that galaxy that was similar to us would have died within seconds of the wave front arrival. It probably cooked off most of the stars within 100 light years of the epicenter.
I wonder what caused that detonation.
There are some things for which one simply cannot be prepared. I suppose the dinosaurs had at least a minute or so to reflect before the meteor strike landed 65MYA.
a billion years here...a billion years there...
Zaphod Beeblebrox
If a Gamma Ray burst happened inside our own galaxy, within 5-8k light years and we were in the line of fire, we would all be dead.
Half immediately on the side of Earth facing the burst, the other half slowly as the atmosphere is stripped of its protective upper ozone layer and sudden production of massive amounts of ozone at ground level...................
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