Pangloss Posted May 9, 2005 Share Posted May 9, 2005 I believe the burst itself was detected by a widefield sensor on the Swift telescope, which then repositioned itself automatically and was able to catch the afterglow within 50 seconds of the burst. This is the first time a visible-light afterglow from a short-duration burst has been detected (not to mention photographed). There's still a lot of uncertainty about whether the short-duration bursts represent black hole formation events or not. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/050509_blackhole_birth.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C3H5(NO3)3 Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 That is crazy!, wow, we can learn so much if it is an actual black hole forming, this is awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obnoxious Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 Awesome! Let's send an astronaught (sp?) up there and test if those black hole theories that you'd stretch and never reach the singularity inside are true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erich Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 Dear Folks: Maybe next time the source will be closer than 3 billion light years away and we will get solid confirmation. Erich http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050509/full/050509-4.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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