The BOAT, as it’s known, could change the way astronomers see gamma ray bursts.
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“For a long time, we have thought about jets as being shaped like ice cream cones,” said Alexander van der Horst, a physicist at George Washington University and a co-author of the study, in a university release. “However, some gamma-ray bursts in recent years, and in particular the work presented here, show that we need more complex models and detailed computer simulations of gamma-ray burst jets,” van der Horst added.
Jets of material accelerated to nearly the speed of light are par for the course for the universe’s massive objects. Quasars and pulsars both spew such jets,from Earth-based observatoriesBrendan O’Connor, a graduate student at GWU and the study’s lead author, said in the same release that the BOAT could be the “Rosetta stone of long GRBs,” insofar as changing the way astrophysicists understand the jets spurted out by collapsing stars.
Long-duration gamma ray bursts are those that last more than two seconds; the BOAT lasted about 10 hours,
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