The most distant explosion ever detected came from the edge of the visible universe. But, how was this explosion, the result of a massive star collapsing into a black hole? Though, it was detected on 4 September 2005, scientists at Penn State University and their U.S. and European colleagues discuss this in the recent issue of Nature.
The explosion is called a gamma-ray burst. And it comes from an era soon after stars and galaxies first formed - which is about 500 million to 1 billion years after the Big Bang! The September burst serves as a probe to study the conditions of the early universe, as the universe is now just 13.7 billion years old compared to the explosion.
Via: Physorg
A Star Collapsed into A Black Hole to Create the Most Distant Cosmic Explosion
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