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A pulse of intense radiation swept through our solar system that astronomers called the BOAT: the brightest of all time.

Several @nasa missions, including Hubble, have followed up to study this gamma-ray burst, likely caused by the birth of a black hole: https://go.nasa.gov/3zeNjbz
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NASA Missions Study What May Be a 1-In-10,000-Year Gamma-ray Burst

On Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022, a pulse of intense radiation swept through the solar system so exceptional that astronomers quickly dubbed it the BOAT – the brightest of all time.
Francis Reddy (NASA)
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