Scientists Discover New Populations Of Exploding Radio Stars That Are Instantly Killed By Black Hole
Source: International Business Times
Scientists Discover New Populations Of Exploding Radio Stars That Are Instantly Killed By Black Hole Birth
By Sreeja VN
on December 21 2013 11:46 AM
Scientists have found that a new type of exploding star dies completely by exhausting all its energy in one single energy burst before collapsing into a black hole.
According to a new research by astronomers at the Centre for All-Sky Astrophysics at Curtin University and the University of Sydney, these new populations of exploding star use all their energy to emit one strong last beam of high radiation, known as gamma-ray burst, before collapsing into a black hole.
The research, which originally set out to prove the existing theory that gamma-ray bursts are always followed by a radio afterglow, discovered that the premise was wrong, and birth of black holes kill a new type of exploding star.
"After studying an ultra-sensitive image of gamma-ray bursts with no afterglow, we can now say the theory was incorrect and our telescopes have not failed us," Paul Hancock, lead researcher of the paper, said in a statement.
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