Astronomy is abuzz with the news that scientists have found the greatest energy burst in space.
The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory at England's University and the NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope were able to detect a huge burst of energy that occurs when a star dies.
The University of Alabama's Marcos Santander said that the GRB was the lightest he'd ever seen.
Phil Evans, an astronomer at the U ofLeicester that works with the Swift Gamma Ray Burst satellite, was even more hyperbolic.
I think it's bright. It's really bright. He said it was really bright. My analysis codes were not built for things like this.
Evans told Vice how important the GRB is and how long it will take to fully understand it.
The astronomer told Vice that the burst is the "brightest GRB we've seen in X-rays."
He said that the new GRB is 1000 times brighter than the typical GRB and a few hundred times brighter than the bright ones seen before. According to the report from the Fermi telescope team, it is one of the best seen in the universe.
It's clear from the astronomy community's reaction that this GRB is a BFD.
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