2024-04-15 11:31:45
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April 15, 2024
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Prepared by: Mustafa Al-Zoubi
Astronomers discovered the most powerful space explosion ever, 2.4 billion light-years away, which occurred in October 2022. It had not been observed since then, until NASA conducted surveys that monitor the sky in search of explosions in space.
The explosion reached a record high of 18 TeV, “the unit of energy measurement,” and was so powerful that it shook the Earth’s outer atmosphere.
The explosion arose from the birth of a black hole as a result of the violent death of a massive star.
“It is no brighter than previous supernovas,” said Peter Blanchard, an astrophysicist from the university.
Gamma ray bursts are the most powerful explosions seen in the universe, and they can explode in 10 seconds with the same energy that the sun emits in 10 billion years.
The researchers pointed out that the formation of a black hole, or a supernova accompanying the merger of two neutron stars, can create gamma explosions.
The types of novae that produce gamma-ray bursts are also thought to be responsible for the production of heavy elements in the universe.
Stars are formed mostly from hydrogen gas, which is abundant in the universe, but they smash atomic nuclei together to form heavier elements, and this reaches iron, because the fusion of iron atoms absorbs more energy than it generates.
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