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Joel
Kontinen
Some researchers
are guesting whether a black hole and a pulser were born at the same time, but others say that the conclusion is premature.
On New
Year’s Day in 2022, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory detected a massive burst of gamma rays from a distant galaxy. After
four years of analysis, a group of astronomers has proposed a dramatic story
for the burst of light – known as GRB 220101A – in which a collapsing star
triggered the formation of both a pulsar and a black hole.
The event
began, according to a team led by Remo Ruffini, an astronomer at the International
Center for Relativistic Astrophysics Network in Italy, with the collapse of the
core of a massive older star, which had earlier been transformed via nuclear
reactions into a mix of carbon and oxygen.
Yes, space is wonderful. We never think what may happen next.
Source:
Matt von Hippel 2026
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