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'Biggest explosion since the Big Bang': Gamma ray burst in a distant galaxy breaks [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^
| November 20, 2019
| Ryan Morrison
Posted on 11/20/2019 1:35:07 PM PST by C19fan
A brief but extremely powerful cosmic blast from a distance galaxy has taken the record for the brightest light ever seen from Earth.
It was emitted by a gamma ray burst seven billion light-years away and created more energy in a few seconds than the sun will burn in its 10 billion year lifetime.
The discovery, led by researchers from Curtin University in Western Australia involved more than 300 scientists from around the world.
Gamma-ray bursts are the most energetic events in the universe - the most massive since the Big Bang, says co author of the study, Dr Gemma Anderson.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; catastrophism; gammarayburst; gammaraybursts; gammarays; science; starburst; stringtheory; supernova
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To: C19fan
Was Eric Swalwell in the vicinity?
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posted on
11/20/2019 1:57:58 PM PST
by
Karliner
(Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28 Isa 17 "This is the end of the beginning" W Churchill)
To: C19fan
It was emitted by a gamma ray burst Dont make me angry, you wouldnt like me when Im angry...
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posted on
11/20/2019 2:09:45 PM PST
by
rhinohunter
(I am Cristeros)
To: C19fan
A brief but extremely powerful cosmic blast from a distance galaxy has taken the record for the brightest light ever seen from Earth.Ehhhhhh....brighter than the sun? Anybody happen to catch this brightness on tape?
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posted on
11/20/2019 2:17:47 PM PST
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would be have noandards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: Karliner
Barking Red Spider Nebula.
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posted on
11/20/2019 2:20:12 PM PST
by
mewzilla
(Break out the mustard seeds.)
To: no-to-illegals
"...must have taken a while for the light of the burst to get here."
Unless it was going really, really fast.
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posted on
11/20/2019 2:20:52 PM PST
by
Psalm 73
("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
To: C19fan
Probably took out the Klingon home world and Romulus...
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posted on
11/20/2019 2:21:58 PM PST
by
JimRed
( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
To: mewzilla
Big bang from the Dutch Oven?
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posted on
11/20/2019 2:22:19 PM PST
by
Karliner
(Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28 Isa 17 "This is the end of the beginning" W Churchill)
To: C19fan
How can they know there haven't been many other "biggest bang since the big bang" bangs before this bang?
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posted on
11/20/2019 2:27:32 PM PST
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: C19fan
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posted on
11/20/2019 2:27:35 PM PST
by
seawolf101
(Member LES DEPLORABLES)
To: dartuser
About 3.2 billion years before Earth was formed.
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posted on
11/20/2019 2:37:38 PM PST
by
Calamari
(Pass enough laws and everyone is guilty of something.)
To: C19fan
Pretty much about 7 billion lights. Considering a single light equates to 6 trillion miles just about everything in that 7 billion light years would be blasted. Gamma ray busters are the most powerful explosions known.
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posted on
11/20/2019 2:42:07 PM PST
by
jmacusa
("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
To: decal
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posted on
11/20/2019 2:42:24 PM PST
by
jmacusa
("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
To: Red Badger
If a Gamma Ray burst happened inside our own galaxy, within 5-8k light years and we were in the line of fire, we would all be dead.
Half immediately on the side of Earth facing the burst, the other half slowly as the atmosphere is stripped of its protective upper ozone layer and sudden production of massive amounts of ozone at ground level...................
- -
Sounds a bit worse than global warming.
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posted on
11/20/2019 3:02:11 PM PST
by
Flick Lives
(MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
To: C19fan
And so far no scientiest has explained where the thing that went blooie came from in the first place.
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posted on
11/20/2019 3:13:48 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
11/20/2019 3:14:33 PM PST
by
fieldmarshaldj
(Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
To: Rurudyne
I was looking right at it. It wasnt that impressive.
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posted on
11/20/2019 3:26:27 PM PST
by
Delta 21
(Be strong & prosper, be weak & die! Stay true.... ~~ Donald J. Trump)
To: Delta 21
"It wasnt that impressive."
Was it better than Halley's Comet?
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posted on
11/20/2019 6:33:12 PM PST
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
To: Red Badger
And we don’t know that it hasn’t happened....
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posted on
11/20/2019 9:42:16 PM PST
by
gundog
( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
To: Flick Lives
But it would be painless............for the people on the front side, anyways.....................
I remember a few decades back, Carter Administration IIRC, the US Army was in process of developing a ‘Death Ray’ weapon, using intense Gamma radiation.
They showed on 60 Minutes I think it was, a monkey sitting in a cage doing what monkeys do, and behind the cage was a source of Gamma radiation that had an IRIS type door, like a camera shutter. They pressed a control button, the shutter opened up quickly and just as quickly closed, like a 1 second exposure. The monkey just fell over dead, no screams of pain or anything, it just died immediately, like someone turned off its life switch......................which is effectively what they did........
Don’t know whatever happened to that weapon development, probably shut down by Carter because it was related to the Neutron Bomb project which he killed............
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posted on
11/21/2019 6:19:06 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
To: 6SJ7; AdmSmith; AFPhys; Arkinsaw; allmost; aristotleman; autumnraine; bajabaja; ...
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posted on
11/21/2019 7:51:34 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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