‘Gamma Radiation Burst’ Observed For The First Time In History

While many firsts have been achieved in space exploration lately, a new one has been added today. Collisions of stars containing at least one neutron star occur in the millimeter radio-frequency wavelengths range, scientists say. observed for the first time in history. The collision allowed us to see the most energetic and bright gamma-ray burst ever observed.

The lights of the collision in question reached the Earth. After 6 to 9 billion years of travel reached and was captured by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in November 2021. The short gamma-ray burst was the first result of work with ALMA to capture such an event.

Here is the first observed gamma burst, identified as GRB 211106A:

Gamma radiation bursts are among the most powerful explosions known in the universe. In these bursts, in just 10 seconds, the Sun’s More than the energy it has emitted in 10 billion years it reveals. These explosions, which we have seen in the video above, also scatter elements heavier than iron into the universe. So much so that even the gold rings we wear on our fingers are actually a product of this stellar disaster.

Short-duration gamma-ray burst (SGRB), which occurs when neutron stars collide. It only takes milliseconds. Therefore, the images we see above show a few millisecond moments that we recorded billions of light years ago. Not all millimeter telescopes prior to ALMA were sensitive enough to capture these distant bursts.