Meet the NEW Most Powerful Thing in the Universe
For decades, we thought gamma-ray bursts were the undisputed champions of cosmic energy. We were wrong.In this episode, I introduce you to the new most powerful thing in the universe — and it is not a star, a black hole, or a supernova. In 2022, the Swift Observatory detected a gamma-ray burst so bright it temporarily blinded the telescope. But that was just the appetizer. The main course arrived when astronomers measured the afterglow: a magnetic field 40,000 times stronger than anything ever observed, surrounding a collapsing massive star. Then came the neutrino detectors. IceCube captured…
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