World's most powerful gamma ray bursts detected(1/2)

Photo released on Oct. 16, 2022 shows the GRB, identified as GRB 221009A, occurred approximately 2.4 billion light-years away in the direction of the constellation Sagitta. It was first detected the morning of Oct. 9 by X-ray and gamma-ray space telescopes. (Photo provided to China News Service)

The signal, designated GRB 221009A, was detected on October 9 by China’s Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO), a cosmic-ray observatory under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as well as the High Energy Burst Searcher (HEBS) and the “Insight” Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT)

Photo released on Oct. 16, 2022 shows the GRB, identified as GRB 221009A, occurred approximately 2.4 billion light-years away in the direction of the constellation Sagitta. It was first detected the morning of Oct. 9 by X-ray and gamma-ray space telescopes. (Photo provided to China News Service)