The brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded recently lit up a distant galaxy — and astronomers have nicknamed it the BOAT, for Brightest of All Time. “We use the boat emoji a lot when we’re ...

Image: ESA/XMM-Newton/M. Rigoselli (INAF) The gamma-ray burst, affectionately dubbed ‘BOAT’ (Brightest of All Time), has been found to emit gamma-rays with energies reaching up to 13 ...

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In early October 2022 a wave of high-energy radiation swept over Earth from a gamma-ray burst ... next to the bright point in the sky. Because of the short amount of extra time it takes light ...

The brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB ... to investigate the historic burst—GRB 221009A, dubbed the BOAT, or "brightest of all time"—to investigate whether the explosion, or supernova, could be a ...

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A typical gamma ray burst lasting seconds or minutes produces about the same energy as our sun does over the course of its entire multi-billion-year lifecycle. Gamma-ray bursts are some of the ...

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