Scientists have created a gamma-ray burst in the laboratory

in #science6 years ago

Gamma ray bursts, powerful flashes of light, are the brightest events in our universe that last no longer than a few seconds or minutes.

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Some people in general believe that these are messages of alien civilizations. And scientists managed to recreate a mini-version of the gamma-ray burst in the laboratory, opening a completely new way of investigating their properties. The results were published in Physical Review Letters.

One of the reasons for the occurrence of gamma-ray bursts is that they are somehow born in the process of ejecting jets of particles created by massive astrophysical objects, such as black holes. <\em>
This makes gamma-ray bursts extremely interesting for astrophysicists. Their detailed research can reveal the key properties of black holes in which these outbreaks are born.

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The most powerful laser in the world

Recently, it has been suggested that the best way to find out how gamma bursts are generated is to imitate them on a small scale in the laboratory, creating a small source of electron-positron beams, and to see how they develop, left to their own devices.
Scientists from the United States, France, Britain and Sweden have managed to create a small version of this phenomenon, using the most powerful on Earth lasers like the Gemini laser, owned by the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory in England.

How powerful is the strongest laser on Earth? Take all the solar energy that covers the entire Earth, and squeeze it to a few microns.

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To much informative post @prosto. Acquired much knowledge on the gama-ray and it's misconception as aliens.
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