Scientists have finally found the cause of the brightest cosmic outburst ever

Scientists began looking into the source of the October 2022 gamma-ray explosion, which was dubbed the “brightest of all times” at the time, when it caused a large shockwave in space.

The blast was caused by a fading star that exploded supernova 2.4 billion light-years away, as astronomers discovered. The event was designated as GRB 221009A, and the burst had a voltage of 18 teraelectronvolts.

A black hole was created when a star went supernova, causing a tremendous explosion that threw out bursts of Gamma-Ray Bursts.

When a star’s core runs out of fuel, the temperature in the center drops, and the star collapses due to gravity, the result is a supernova.

A black hole is created when huge stars collapse; it is a dense entity with a gravitational pull so strong that not even light can escape.

According to researchers’ results published in Nature Astronomy, it was just a typical supernova and nothing remarkable.

Because of the size of the explosion, scientists stated they did not anticipate it to be anything typical.

Astrophysicist Peter Blanchard said, “It’s not brighter than previous supernovae.”

In the perspective of other supernovae connected to lower-energy GRBs, it appears to be rather typical. A extremely energetic and brilliant supernova should likewise be expected to be produced by the same collapsing star that produced the very energetic and bright GRB, the speaker said.

But as it happens, that’s not the case, he continued. We have a typical supernova but also this really bright GRB.”

These explosions are the strongest in space, and the energy released in ten matches the energy released by the Sun in ten billion years.

“The GRB was so bright that it obscured any potential supernova signature in the first weeks and months after the burst,” Blanchard stated.