A Massive Explosion Lit Up Deep Space — Scientists Detected It Within Minutes
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Rapid automation helped astronomers detect GRB 260127A’s fading millimetre afterglow just 12.6 minutes after Swift’s alert.
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A gamma-ray burst designated GRB 260127A produced one of the Universe’s most powerful kinds of explosions. NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory detected the flash before a ground-based telescope began recording its fading glow only minutes later.
The achievement established a speed record for millimetre and submillimetre observations of a gamma-ray burst. It did not mean scientists witnessed the distant explosion immediately after it physically happened; the record measures the response after its radiation reached Earth.