Gamma Ray Burst Spotted Today

[Pangloss]

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

[C3H5(NO3)3]

That is crazy!, wow, we can learn so much if it is an actual black hole forming, this is awesome!

[Obnoxious]

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

[Erich]

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