💥 The once-in-a-millennium blast of energy — later dubbed the Brightest of All Time (BOAT) — has continued to puzzle scientists, who say it was 70 times brighter than the second most powerful burst on record.
Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science newsA new paper proposes that the record-setting gamma ray burst that reached Earth on Oct. 9, 2022, was so bright and so long-lasting because it both originated in and mixed with a star as it collapsed into a black hole.
Great jets of energy — including gamma rays, the highest-energy form of light — shoot their way out of the star and into the universe where they gradually lose their oomph. This process happens very slowly, however, as BOAT crossed 2.4 billion light years to reach Earth over anSpace scientists track gamma ray bursts using a small network of satellites, and when BOAT first reached them, it overwhelmed their sensors.
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