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In 2022, scientists spotted a strange signal coming from the most powerful cosmic explosion ever detected.
The brightest of all-time gamma-ray burst on record — nicknamed the BOAT but officially named GRB 221009A — was detected Oct. 9, 2022. At the time, it beamed so many gamma rays toward our planet that it saturated all the detectors onboard spacecraft circling Earth, including NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over."When I first saw that signal, it gave me goosebumps," lead researcher Maria Edvige Ravasio, an astrophysicist at Radboud University in the Netherlands and the Brera Observatory, said in the statement. Scientists have been studying GRBs for 50 years, but this is the first time they've detected a signal like this with high confidence, she added.
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