Astronomers have spotted the brightest light ever seen 2.4 billion light-years from Earth. According to scientists, this incident of light has an energy of 180 trillion volts. In fact, it is also the most intense gamma-ray burst. This burst of gamma rays (the most intense type of electromagnetic radiation) was first observed by a space telescope this month, and its glow continues to be seen by scientists around the world.
Experts believe that this glow was caused by the formation of a black hole. According to Brendan O’Connor, who observed the scene using the infrared instruments of the Gemini South Telescope in Chile, both the amount of photons reaching us and the energy of the photons are breaking previous records. A bright event of this nature occurs once in a century. The burst, which lasted for hundreds of seconds, is believed to be caused by the extinction of stars 30 times the size of our Sun, he said.
When a star explodes violently, a black hole is created, material from the dust disk around the black hole falls in, and the black hole shoots it out at 99.99 percent the speed of light. The protons released in the explosion had an energy of a record 18 teraelectron volts and the process affected long-wave radio communications in the Earth’s ionosphere. The ionosphere is the boundary between 48 km and 965 km above sea level that separates the Earth’s atmosphere from space.
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