Supernovas are among the most violent events in the universe. Especially when you look at the extraordinary energies and the celestial bodies that appear when it explodes, it deserves more than enough attention. However, a gamma-ray burst, called BOAT, has recently occurred. This ranked as the brightest supernova explosion ever. Here are the details!
The brightest supernova explosion ever!
Supernova can be called the moment of death of stars with a mass more than eight times that of the Sun. Although we call the event in question death, this word has many meanings. The black hole and neutron stars that took place after the supernova took place are the most interesting celestial objects in the universe.
The event that creates these celestial bodies, which have a very compact structure, is a supernova explosion. The reason for this is that only matter under such a force is compressed enough to become a black hole. In the opposite case, incompressibility decreases and becomes a neutron star.
Today, a telescope observed an explosion called BOAT. In this observation, he gives us information about what happened in the few days after the supernova explosion. The telescope in question became the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO).
As LHAASO received data when the BOAT supernova exploded, it tracked not only the beginning of the event but also its development after the event. Although there were some problems in the spatial resolution part, there was a lot of data. More than 64 thousand phatons were detected at energies above 200 giga-electron volts in the first 100 minutes.
According to the researchers, this data suggests that low-energy events are caused by jets interacting with the turbulent debris of the supernova. This debris will limit the velocity of space particles, both close to the source of the jets and complex. This means that they will also put limits on their energies.
Higher-energy photons, by contrast, are produced in areas where the jets clear supernova remnants and begin to interact with the material that makes up the environment around the star. It seems difficult to leave the debris of a supernova behind. But the process is fast, as the jet accelerates the particles to nearly the speed of light.
BOAT, on the other hand, made a sharp drop in high-energy photons in the supernova state. This is said to be due to the expansion of the jets as they move away from their source. It also appears that BOAT is the brightest supernova, as the jet’s central core is facing directly towards Earth.
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