Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have contributed to new insights into the most long-lived cosmic explosion ever recorded. The event was a gamma-ray burst that remained ...
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Bizarre 7-hour deep space blast stuns scientists
The cosmos has a way of rewriting its own rulebook, and a single blast of high-energy light has just forced astronomers back to the first page. Earlier this year, a gamma-ray outburst that raged for ...
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Seven-hour blast from deep space baffles scientists
Gamma-ray bursts, or GRBs, are among the most powerful explosions known and are usually detected about once a day. This one, ...
Astronomers tracked a gamma-ray burst lasting over 7 hours, unseen in visible light, from a dusty galaxy 8 billion light-years away, challenging existing models and raising new questions for science.
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