Astronomers discover sonic boom from powerful unseen explosion
Thursday, October 4, 2018 - 13:00
in Astronomy & Space
A team of astronomers has detected the sonic boom from an immensely powerful cosmic explosion, even though the explosion itself was totally unseen. The titanic eruption, known as a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB), was generated by the collapse of a massive star in a galaxy nearly 300 million light-years from Earth.