Artist's Concept: A Light-Speed Jet from a Gamma-Ray Burst (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Artist's Concept: A Light-Speed Jet from a Gamma-Ray Burst

Caption

A jet of particles moving at nearly light speed emerges from a massive star in this artist’s concept. The star’s core ran out of fuel and collapsed into a black hole. Some of the matter swirling toward the black hole was redirected into dual jets firing in opposite directions. We see a gamma-ray burst when one of these jets happens to point directly at Earth.

 

Credit

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

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