OT:Satellite Detects Massive Explosion

[ICXRa]

Story at the Washington post!

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks ICXRa, nice story!

 

[Assimilator1]

Wow!:Q ,instresting ,thanks

Astronomers using NASA's Swift satellite said yesterday that they have detected the most distant explosion ever discovered in the universe, the collapse into a black hole of a massive star about 12.6 billion light-years from Earth

 

[Wolfsraider]

Nice 1!!!

The massive blast, known as a gamma ray burst, lasted 200 seconds and was detected Sept. 4 by the Earth-orbiting Swift, which relayed the sighting to astronomers who used ground-based telescopes to observe the burst and its afterglow. Because the explosion was so distant, light from it is only now reaching Earth.

 

[BadThad]

Cool!

 

[conjur]

I was just reading about that.


Pretty sweet!