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The earliest and most direct observational evidence of the validity of the theory are the expansion of the universe according to Hubble's law (as indicated by the redshifts of galaxies), discovery and measurement of the cosmic microwave background and the relative abundances of light elements produced by Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN).
Gamma-ray bursts are thought to be highly focused explosions, with most of the explosion energy collimated into a narrow jet. [ 94 ] [ 95 ] The jets of gamma-ray bursts are ultrarelativistic , and are the most relativistic jets in the universe.
The explosion took place 12.2 billion light-years (light travel distance) away. That means it occurred 12.2 billion years ago—when the universe was only about 1.5 billion years old. The burst lasted for 23 minutes, almost 700 times as long as the two-second average for high energy GRBs. [2]
The most recent naked-eye supernova was SN 1987A, which was the explosion of a blue supergiant star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. Theoretical studies indicate that most supernovae are triggered by one of two basic mechanisms: the sudden re-ignition of nuclear fusion in a white dwarf , or the sudden ...
The Earth has been hit by a powerful blast of energy from the very depths of the universe. The fast radio burst is the most distant of its kind of ever seen, coming from so far away that it has ...
Astronomers have spotted a record-breaking gamma ray burst, the most energetic type of electromagnetic explosion in the universe. ‘Most powerful explosion ever’ detected by telescopes Skip to ...
The theory he devised to explain what he found is called the Big Bang theory. [citation needed] In 1931, Lemaître proposed in his "hypothèse de l'atome primitif" (hypothesis of the primeval atom) that the universe began with the "explosion" of the "primeval atom" – what was later called the Big Bang.
The eruption was so intense it punched a crater the size of fifteen Milky Way galaxies into a part of space hundreds of millions of light-years away.