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High-energy radiation swept through the solar system, satellites of all countries received a warning: it is a gamma-ray burst

Do you know how energetic gamma-ray bursts are?

By Folks DagresPublished 2 years ago 5 min read

Earth is a planet in the solar system, there are eight planets in the solar system, they are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, outside of Neptune there is Pluto, once Pluto also belongs to a planet, but scientists think that Pluto's volume and mass are too small, so they kicked Pluto out of the ranks of the planets, currently only eight planets left in the solar system. In the solar system of the eight planets, only the Earth planet was born life, the emergence of life on the Earth planet added a lot of colors, especially after the emergence of mankind, to solve many mysteries of the universe.

According to scientists' research we can know that the universe is a huge interstellar space, there are many celestial bodies in the universe, in addition to the planets, there are stars, comets, asteroids, neutron stars, white dwarfs, and so on, these celestial bodies are generated after the Big Bang, the most mysterious object found in the universe is the black hole, black holes in the very early days of scientists proposed in 1783 In 1783, a British astronomer named Michel wrote a letter to the then scientist Cavendish, in which he believed that there is a mysterious object in the universe with a very large mass that can lead to a complete black hole, this object can even swallow light, the earliest scientists called it a dark star, and then with the development of human technology, in 1916, Einstein in the general theory of relativity The concept of black holes was proposed in the general theory of relativity. Einstein predicted that when the mass of a celestial body was so large that even light could not escape, at that time Einstein predicted the existence of black holes.

However, because such objects as black holes are too extreme, so even Einstein himself did not believe that black holes exist in the universe. In the same year, German physicist Karl Swasey described this hypothesis using general relativity, and he calculated that when the mass density of the central object exceeds a specific limit, a kind of gravitational collapse is triggered, and if this occurs in the case of spherical symmetry, a Swasey radius black hole is created. The black hole is the most powerful celestial body of human cognitive gravity at present. Due to the technology related to a human at that time, although many scientists calculated the black hole, they could not see it, so at that time many people did not believe that the black hole existed and that it has been a virtual object that exists in the universe. In 2019, scientists took a picture of a black hole for the first time, which also proved that black holes do exist.

Scientists have discovered through research that black holes are formed after the death of a star. Generally speaking, three forms of stars occur after death, small-mass stars become white dwarfs after death, medium-mass stars become neutron stars after death, supermassive stars become black holes after death, and at the same time, an extremely dangerous event occurs, which is a gamma-ray burst, which scientists believe is one of the brightest stars other than Since the Big Bang, the brightest electromagnetic waves, but also the most extreme energy burst event, on October 9, a very bright pulse of high-energy radiation passed through the solar system, according to scientists, this is a gamma-ray burst occurred in the depths of the universe and is still the strongest one.

The wave of X-rays and gamma rays triggered the NASA Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Wind spacecraft, and Neil. The Gayrell Swift Observatory and the Chinese Hui-eye satellite, followed by telescopes around the world, were aimed at the site of the event in an attempt to observe the outburst in more detail. The event was numbered GRB 221009A, and Swift's X-ray telescope captured the afterglow of GRB 221009A again an hour after it was first detected, and the images show how GRB 221009A gradually subsided over 10 hours. The Fermi Large Area Telescope also provided astronomers with data that scientists relied on to construct a sequence that revealed the sky under gamma rays centered on GRB 221009A, when each frame showed gamma rays with energies greater than 100 million electron volts, with brighter colors being more energetic. GRB 2221009A originated in the direction of the constellation Sky Arrow, and the signal originated about 1.9 Astronomers agree that this event represents the birth of a black hole.

But let scientists feel grateful that this gamma-ray burst did not hit the celestial bodies in the solar system, much less the Earth, what would happen if said gamma-ray burst hit the Earth? According to scientists, we can know that if a gamma-ray burst hit the Earth, then the Earth's creatures will usher in the sixth biological extinction, in the 4.6 billion years of the Earth, the Earth's creatures have experienced a total of five biological extinction events, they are the Ordovician period, the Devonian period, the Permian period, the Triassic period and the Cretaceous period, each biological extinction event on the biological The impact of each of these events was enormous.

Scientists believe that 440 million years ago, the Ordovician biological extinction event was caused by a gamma-ray burst when the Earth was hit by a gamma-ray burst so that the Earth's creatures died in large numbers when the gamma-ray burst hit the Earth, Earth's atmosphere will be instantly destroyed, when the universe's high-energy rays will bombard marine life, and will also release a large number of toxic gases, thus making the Earth on the gradual death of living creatures, scientists speculate that there was a gamma-ray burst from 6000 light-years away hit the Earth, so it would lead to such a result, see here, I believe many friends will be surprised.

Although 6000 light-years for humans is a very far distance, standing on the scale of the universe, 6000 light-years are not very far, and because the gamma-ray burst is too strong, its impact on Earth's creatures is also very huge, scientists are also actively exploring and studying the mysteries of gamma-ray bursts, I believe that humans are the most intelligent life on Earth, human technology In the future, with the progress of human technology, humans will be able to solve the mystery of the gamma-ray burst, and, with the strong human technology, we will be able to resist the attack of the gamma-ray burst in the future, after all, there are many dangers hidden in the universe that we can not see, humans only continue to be strong, to be able to develop in the universe for a long time, about this, what do you want to say?

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