Heard of GRB 080916C ?

[Michael Zacherl]

On Feb 21, 2009, at 5:11 PM, Tony Hardie-Bick wrote:

> Romain / rXg wrote:
>> Maybe some barians will be glad to read this ...
>>
>> http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/news/high_grb.html
>
> These words are truly beautiful:
>
> "As a star's core collapses into a black hole, jets of material -  
> powered by
> processes not yet fully understood - blast outward at nearly the  
> speed of light.
> The jets bore all the way through the collapsing star and continue  
> into space,
> where they interact with gas previously shed by the star and  
> generate bright
> afterglows that fade with time."
>
> There is perhaps, a law of reciprocity, and if there is, then it  
> speaks well of
> the human species, that we put so much effort into understanding  
> these things.


doesn't that suggest that 'they' were about to witness the birth of a  
black hole?




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