Friday, August 5, 2022 – 13:16 WIB
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LIVE Techno – One of the most powerful flashes in the sky, the result of a bintang and bintang neutron which collided, had been caught by radio astronomers with a millimeter wavelength for the first time.
This picture has offered an unprecedented view of one of the most violent events in the Cosmos.
A research team led by Northwestern University in Illinois and Radboud University in the Netherlands used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or ALMA radio telescope in Chile to capture the remnants of GRB 211106A, a short gamma-ray burst (GRB) originating from a galaxy 20 meters away. billion light years.
“This short gamma-ray burst is the first we have seen and we are trying to observe such an event with ALMA,” said professor of physics and astronomy Wen-fai Fong in a statement.
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Light for short bursts was hard to come by, so it was a miracle to be able to see the scene in such a bright light. Fong is one of many authors on a study to be published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters issue.
GRBs are powerful bursts of gamma radiation that occur when a massive star collapses into a black hole or a dense neutron star in a binary system, merging with a companion star to form a black hole.
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