On Oct. 9, 2022, the sky was illuminated with a spectacular display of light when the brightest gamma-ray burst ever witnessed in history, GRB 221009A, occurred. The event was visible to the naked eye and observed by astronomers around the world, including a team of scientists at the University of Arizona. Today, those scientists are.
On Oct. 9, 2022, the sky was illuminated with a spectacular display of light when the brightest gamma-ray burst ever witnessed in history, GRB 221009A, occurred. The event was visible to the naked eye and observed by astronomers around the world, including a team of scientists at the University of Arizona. Today, those scientists are.
The gamma-ray burst (gamma ray flash) captured on October 9, 2022, was the brightest ever seen, according to observations presented at the American Astronomical Society's Division of High Energy Astrophysics conference in Hawaii and published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters and Astronomy & Astrophysics. Italy took part in the research with the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) and Italian Space Agency (ASI) (ANSA)
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It was 10 times brighter than any previously detected, reports the BBC, noting it illuminated much of the galaxy.
RockDoctor (Slashdot reader #15,477) writes: A recent paper on ArXiv describes a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) whose light arrived late last year as one of the strongest ever observed. GRB 22.