An artist’s impression of a gamma ray burst in space(Credit: ESO/A. Roquette)
A Queen’s University Belfast scientist has recreated the first ever mini version of a GRB in a laboratory, opening up a whole new way to investigate their properties and potentially unlocking some of the mysteries around alien civilisation. Gamma ray bursts are intense explosions of light and are among some of the brightest events that have ever been observed in the universe. However, because they occur in short bursts and originate in distant galaxies scientists have not been able to exactly pinpoint what causes them.
Some might even suggest they may be messages from advanced alien civilisations but many experts have predicted that the bursts are emitted when jets of particles are thrown out by massive astrophys...
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