Arvin Ash | What Causes a Gamma Ray Burst? Hypernova vs Supernova @ArvinAsh | Uploaded 1 year ago | Updated 6 hours ago
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A gamma ray burst usually occurs when a very large star collapses into a black hole. This results in Hypernova, which is 100x more powerful than a supernova. It is relatively rare, but since there are so many stars in the universe, a few hundred thousand occur somewhere in the universe every year. Every gamma ray burst we have detected has been outside of our own galaxy. If it occurred within our galaxy, pointed directly at us, we would probably be fried!