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Brightest Space Burst Ever Recorded Signals Birth of Black Hole

05-04-2003 4:41pm

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kamobe

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Over the weekend a NASA satellite detected the brightest burst of energy ever seen in space. The so-called gamma-ray burst, which briefly outshone the entire universe in gamma rays and likely signaled the birth of a black hole, occurred roughly 2 billion light-years away.

http://www.space.com/astronotes/astronotes.html

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