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Jun 11, 2023

A gamma-ray explosion that was so bright it blinded scientists’ equipment is even weirder than first thought

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The brightest gamma-ray explosion ever caught on record, which was so bright it blinded scientific instruments, just got weirder.

GRB 221,009, first spotted in October 2022, outshone other cosmic explosions on record by “not just a little bit, but a hundred times,” George Washington University graduate student Brendan O’Connor said in a press release.

The explosion earned the nickname BOAT for “Brightest of All Time.”

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