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.

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International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Garlick/M. Zamani

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Type:Artwork
Release date:June 22, 2023, 8 a.m.
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