The blast, which astronomers said was the brightest of all time since the beginning of human civilisation, occurred two billion light years from Earth in October and produced a pulse of intense radiation that swept through the solar system.
An image from Swift's X-Ray telescope of the afterglow of GRB 221009A. Pic: Liverpool John Moores UniversityA cosmic explosion that blinded space instruments may be the brightest ever seen, astronomers have said.
Scientists said the event was a gamma-ray burst , known for being some of the strongest and brightest explosions in the universe. It meant researchers could not measure the real intensity of the emission and had to reconstruct its energy expenditure from past and present data.
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