Astronomers noticed the brightest flash of light ever, an explosion of 18,000,000,000 volts from an event that occurred 2.4 billion light-years from Earth, and experts believe that the flash was most likely caused by the formation of a black hole, and a gamma-ray burst, the most intense form, was detected For electromagnetic radiation, it was first used by orbiting telescopes on October 9 and its followingglow is still monitored by scientists around the world.
According to the British newspaper “Daily Mail”, Brendan O’Connor, who used infrared tools On the Gemini South telescope in Chile: “It really is a record-breaker, both in the amount of photons and the energy of the photons that reach us,” adding, “Something like this, this one nearby, is actually a once-in-a-century event.”
O’Connor told AFP that the gamma-ray bursts, lasting hundreds of seconds, are believed to be caused by the dying stars of massive stars 30 times larger than our sun.
The star explodes and collapses into a black hole, then material forms in a disk around the black hole, falls inside, and is released in a jet of energy traveling at 99.99% of the speed of light.
The flash released photons carrying 18 TeV of energy, 18 with 12 zeros behind, and affected long-wave radio communications in the Earth’s ionosphere.
Gamma ray research first began in the 1960s when American satellites were designed to detect whether the Soviet Union was detonating bombs in space, and such explosions ended up being found from outside the Milky Way.
