Flash bang wallop

• Autores: Colin Stuart
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3093, 2016, págs. 38-41
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • On 28 March 2011, at 9:47 pm Eastern Standard Time, NASA's Swift satellite spotted a searing burst of light in the corner of its eye. Within seconds it had alerted astronomers on the ground, and their telescopes were soon trained on a dazzling spectacle. At the center of a galaxy 3.8 billion light years away, a supermassive black hole was devouring a star that had strayed too close, tearing it apart to spark a gargantuan swirling firework. Then, suddenly, a narrow Jet of radiation, pointed right at us, erupted from the black hole at dose to the speed of light. Here, Stuart details how scientists catch up with the most extreme explosions in the cosmos.