Hubble is studying a gamma-ray burst with the highest energy ever seen in the universe! 👀 NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers a peek at the location of the most energetic outburst ever seen in the universe — a blast of gamma-rays a trillion times more powerful than visible light. That’s because in a few seconds the gamma-ray burst (GRB) emitted more energy than the Sun will provide over its entire 10-billion year life. In January 2019, an extremely bright and long-duration GRB w

NASA has detected the longest gamma-ray burst ever recorded, an extreme cosmic explosion that lasted nearly seven hours — far longer than typical gamma-ray bursts, which usually fade within seconds or minutes. This unprecedented event is believed to have occurred when a black hole plunged into a massive star, tearing through it from the inside while feeding on stellar material. As the star collapsed, the black hole formed a hot spinning accretion disk and launched powerful relativistic jets, rel