GRB from NS Collision - V2
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From a NOIRLab press releases, for which this image was commissioned: 'Astronomers studying a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB) with the Gemini South telescope, operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, may have detected a never-before-seen way to destroy a star. Unlike most GRBs, which are caused by exploding massive stars or the chance mergers of neutron stars, astronomers have concluded that this GRB came instead from the collision of stars or stellar remnants in the jam-packed environment surrounding a supermassive black hole at the core of an ancient galaxy.' This image depicts the event taking place on the outskirts of the black hole's accretion disc.
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Title: GRB from NS Collision - V2

Category: Misc

Date: May 2023

Client: NOIRLab

Medium: Photoshop

Keywords: accretion active Adobe Photoshop AGN astronomy astrophysics beam black hole collision disc galaxy gamma rays GRB jet molecular clouds neutron star NOIRLab nucleus outflow particle power press release protons radiation