The most intense gamma-ray explosion in the universe

The team at the University of Maryland, USA and colleagues at Bath University, UK and the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) announced on July 27 the clearest picture of the GRB 160625B gamma-ray burst from Left Land 10 billion light years, according to Mirror.

Mysterious gamma-ray bursts (GRB) have attracted astronomers for decades, since they were discovered in the late 1960s. Gamma-ray bursts occur when a giant star dies, exploded as a supernova and collapsed into a black hole. It spits out beams of light at the speed of light in the universe. Any planet that is on the path of this beam will lose its atmosphere immediately and be burned.

The explosion of gamma rays emits rays in the universe at the speed of light.(Photo: SWNS).

The team said they had only 1 / 10,000 chances of detecting a star's light when it died. However, the GRB 160625B gamma ray burst was so bright that they could see it with binoculars.

"This time we obtained a one-second flash of light as a precaution. After that, the delay period lasted about 100 seconds, enough time for us to locate the telescope explosion. Explosion. Longer than normal, going on for a few minutes, " said Carole Mundell, head of the Department of Physics at Bath University.

Eleonora Troja, the lead author of the University of Maryland study, said that gamma-ray bursts are catastrophic events involving the explosion of giant stars 50 times the size of the Sun. The Earth's extinction event 450 million years ago may be related to a gamma-ray explosion in a region very close to the Milky Way.

"Gamma-ray bursts release energy in a second so big that it is equivalent to the solar energy released in 10 billion years , " Troja said.