#shorts Meet the BOAT, the brightest gamma-ray burst of all time.
Gamma-ray bursts are energetic explosions that occur when a massive star dies. The collapse sets off jets of gamma rays zipping away from the dead star and if those jets happen to be pointed at Earth, astronomers get a great view, as these new images reveal. This particular burst, according to one astronomer, was a once-in-a-century event, maybe once in 1,000 years.
Named GRB 221009A, the powerful cosmic show was probably triggered by a supernova giving birth to a black hole in a galaxy about 2.4 billion light-years away.
Credit:NASA, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser
Credit: NASA/Swift/A. Beardmore (University of Leicester)
Credit: NASA/Swift/B. Cenko
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