Imagine if you could collect energy from thousands of galaxies, each containing billions of stars. Now assume that you could take this kind of power, and use it to wield the biggest super-weapon in the universe. Just think how much damage you can do. These energetic explosions actually do exist and are called gamma-ray bursts.
A gamma-ray burst is considered one of the most strongest and immensely energetic explosions in the universe lasting anywhere from a few milliseconds to several minutes, in front of which a supernova explosion also seems to be very small. You can get an idea of how fierce the Gamma-ray burst is from the fact that GRB releases many times more energy in just ten seconds than the amount of energy our sun release in its entire life. It is such an explosion that can destroy millions of planets in just a fraction of the time. If it is compared to a supernova, it emits light hundreds of times brighter than a supernova and about a million trillion times brighter than the Sun.
Gamma Ray Burst usually occurs when two neutron stars collide or merge with each other causing the formation of a black hole. GRBs can be seen being produced in the center of most distant galaxies and release an immensely large amount of energy in just one second of time. It is considered to be the brightest event ever detected by scientists in the universe as they emit so much intense light as a whole that it can make your eyes blind in just half a second.
But the most surprising thing is that scientists have not yet fully figured out why this explosion actually occurs. But some scientists believe that they arise from explosions in stars, but so far no concrete information has been received about it. Not long ago, scientists again detected a bright blast of light more energetic than they had ever seen, and according to the data, this burst was the most powerful and the brightest of all time.
But what if a GRB hits the earth? Gamma-ray bursts last for only several minutes at most but even a second would be enough for them to mess up all the complex life on the planet. It can destroy our earth at an extreme level, but it depends on its distance and beam path because a gamma-ray burst can be unaffected if they're not in the beam path.
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