| ▲ | Astronomers spot mysterious gamma-ray explosion, unlike any detected before(eso.org) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 42 points by hawski 3 days ago | 7 comments | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | babelfish 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
[2] The authors favour a scenario in which a white dwarf was shredded by a so-called intermediate-mass black hole. A white dwarf is the small, slowly-cooling core that is left behind after a star like our Sun dies. Intermediate-mass black holes are between 100 and 100 000 times more massive than the Sun. Most known black holes have masses significantly greater or lower than that, and intermediate-mass black holes remain a poorly understood type of object. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | Panzerschrek 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
This may be not so powerful gamma ray source as expected, considering that it may radiate in one or two narrow beams, which isn't unusual. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | 1970-01-01 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
Are we sure the death star is not yet operational? | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | pineaux 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
Probably aliens. That's my first thought on articles like this. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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