Artist’s Impression of a GRB
Astronomers studying a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB) with the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, may have observed a never-before-seen way to destroy a star. Unlike most GRBs, which are caused by exploding massive stars or the chance mergers of neutron stars, astronomers have concluded that this GRB came instead from the collision of stars or stellar remnants in the jam-packed environment surrounding a supermassive black hole at the core of an ancient galaxy.
Credit:International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Garlick/M. Zamani
About the Image
Id: | noirlab2319a |
Type: | Artwork |
Release date: | June 22, 2023, 8 a.m. |
Related releases: | noirlab2319 |
Size: | 6000 x 3375 px |
About the Object
Category: | Illustrations |
Image Formats
Large JPEG
3.2 MB
Publication TIFF 4K
11.5 MB
Publication JPEG
1.5 MB
Screensize JPEG
341.3 KB