On Oct. 9, an unusually narrow and staggeringly bright jet of energy swept through our solar system.The Astrophysical Journal Letters this month published a series of research papers focused on the event, a gamma ray burst called GRB 221009A and nicknamed the BOAT, or “brightest of all time.”
UArizona astronomers have joined an international effort to study the aftermath of the brightest flash of gamma rays ever observed. Observations involving various UArizona telescopes and instruments provide astronomers with a "cosmic lab" to study how massive stars die.
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