Record-Breaking Gamma Ray Burst Temporarily Blinds NASA's Swift
A blast of the brightest X-rays ever detected from beyond our Milky Way galaxy's neighborhood temporarily blinded the X-ray eye on NASA's Swift space observatory earlier this summer, astronomers now report. The X-rays traveled through space for 5-billion years before slamming into and overwhelming Swift's X-ray Telescope on June 21, 2010. The blindingly bright blast came from a gamma-ray burst, a violent eruption of energy from the explosion of a massive star morphing into a new black hole.
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"It was an indescribable feeling when I realized, at that moment, that I was the only person in the whole universe who knew that this extraordinary event had occurred" - Phil Evans<br><br>I guess Phil rules out intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.
Lets see...it took 5 billion years to get here...maybe some other life form saw it during that long period of time.
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