Using satellites to capture gamma-ray burst signals from space, British scientists have identified that 15% of these explosions occur in galaxies located 300 million light-years away from the Milky Way, with durations lasting less than 2 seconds.
These explosions are essentially the result of collisions and mergers between two neutron stars. The impact between these stars releases an immense amount of energy, sufficient for them to merge and form black holes in the universe.
The aforementioned scientists also discovered similar explosions akin to gamma-ray bursts but within galaxies close to the Milky Way, and even within the Milky Way itself.
These explosions are caused by collisions between magnetars, which possess magnetic fields hundreds of thousands of trillion times stronger than Earth’s magnetic field.
To date, the exact cause of these explosions remains undetermined; however, pinpointing the locations of these bursts and the objects responsible for gamma-ray bursts is considered a significant breakthrough in the field of astronomy.
