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The Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 revealed the infrared afterglow (circled) of the BOAT GRB and its host galaxy, seen nearly edge-on as a sliver of light extending to the burst's upper left. This composite incorporates images taken on Nov. 8 and Dec. 4, 2022, one and two months after the eruption. Given its brightness, the burst’s afterglow may remain detectable by telescopes for several years. The picture combines three near-infrared images taken each day at wavelengths from 1 to 1.5 microns. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, A. Levan (Radboud University); Image Processing: Gladys Kober

Meet a 1-In-10,000-Year Gamma-ray Burst known as BOAT

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Meet a 1-In-10,000-Year Gamma-ray Burst known as BOAT, lkely the brightest burst at X-ray and gamma-ray energies to occur since human civilization began

Astronomers think GRB 221009A represents the birth of a new black hole formed within the heart of a collapsing star. In this illustration, the black hole drives powerful jets of particles traveling near the speed of light. The jets pierce through the star, emitting X-rays and gamma rays as they stream into space. Credit: NASA/Swift/Cruz deWilde

NASA’s Swift, Fermi Missions Detect Exceptional Cosmic Blast

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NASA’s Swift, Fermi Missions Detect Exceptional Cosmic Blast as a gamma-ray burst (GRB) – the most powerful class of explosions in the universe visited us. Astronomers think it represents the birth cr...