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Astronomers spot mysterious gamma-ray explosion, unlike any detected before

• babelfish 1y ago
  [2] The authors favour a scenario in which a white dwarf was shredded by a so-called intermediate-mass black hole. A white dwarf is the small, slowly-cooling core that is left behind after a star like our Sun dies. Intermediate-mass black holes are between 100 and 100 000 times more massive than the Sun. Most known black holes have masses significantly greater or lower than that, and intermediate-mass black holes remain a poorly understood type of object.
• pineaux 1y ago
  Probably aliens. That's my first thought on articles like this.
  • ksaho 1y ago
    I am sure Avi Loeb will let the media know.
  • hawski 1y ago
    My first thought was that if there was any carbon based life around there there isn't anymore.
  • b33j0r 1y ago
    It would be pretty on-point though, if the way we detected aliens is when they destroyed themselves.
• Panzerschrek 1y ago
  This may be not so powerful gamma ray source as expected, considering that it may radiate in one or two narrow beams, which isn't unusual.
• 1970-01-01 1y ago
  Are we sure the death star is not yet operational?