Watch the Brightest Gamma-Ray Burst of All Time!

#shorts Meet the BOAT, the brightest gamma-ray burst of all time.
Gamma-ray bursts are energetic explosions that occur when a massive star dies. The collapse sets off jets of gamma rays zipping away from the dead star and if those jets happen to be pointed at Earth, astronomers get a great view, as these new images reveal. This particular burst, according to one astronomer, was a once-in-a-century event, maybe once in 1,000 years.
Named GRB 221009A, the powerful cosmic show was probably triggered by a supernova giving birth to a black hole in a galaxy about 2.4 billion light-years away.

Credit:NASA, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser
Credit: NASA/Swift/A. Beardmore (University of Leicester)
Credit: NASA/Swift/B. Cenko

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[andrewplays]

You got to love those intergalactic death rays that are always flying around the universe and you can't see coming 💀

[ellisonhamilton]

The amount of energy characteristic of GRBs is staggering and difficult to describe verbally. This would be a great topic for a full length video.
Thanks and have a great week.

[batticusmanacleas]

I try not to worry about the future because I know a direct hit from a big enough GRB could kill us all at any moment. Good enough reason for me to have fun instead of fold laundry most days.

[skateboardingjesus]

Almost instantaneously converting many solar masses into a coherent beam of x-radiation and highly relativistic subatomic particles, is not something you want to be near.

[DocSeville]

I want to live on a planet where scientific videos Iike this is ALL that is on TV!

[DjCrook]

So dangerous and beautiful at the same time

[Alex-nexj]

Why do I go on YouTube short space benders I love these🤣

[michaelbraum]

I love this shit!!! I am most definitely a space nerd!!! Our atmosphere swelled in size for a few hours. That's amazing!!!

[picasso]

One of the most dangerous streams of power in the universe its other thousands millions to trillions of structures that's dangerous but this one hits the top number one

[thatoscarguy]

Another ice age? Regular winters in my region of Canada are painful enough thank you.

[romanpavlyk]

It’s not when a star dies, when a star dies it releases a super nova. When a black whole is born, it releases a gamma ray.

[ronaldross]

Do they just keep going until it hits something or do they like burn out?

I find space so dam fascinating 👍👍

[Mangofresh]

BOAT is my new saying thank you very much

[honestreview]

Don't we need to worry about everything coming our in the general direction of earth after such an explosion?

[Edikafrfx]

The thumb nail looks like the primis crew coming out the portal arriving at gorod krovi

[gadget]

GRB 221009a Did not make earths upper atmosphere too swell in size

[Gman-eeos]

If those jets are ok pointed at earth astronauts would get a great view as they die💀

[shallah]

2.4 billion light years.... That's a way away.

[mandeep.]

Woah, I didn’t know events like that could affect us from so far away. The other day I noticed a red star flickering a lot for the first time to such a degree…I wonder if I was looking at it or not 🤔

[fearchild]

2.4Bly away and the upper atmosphere was affected.
I wonder how bad it sucked for those folks 1.2Bly away.