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Daily Mirror
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Anders Anglesey

'Game-changing' deep space explosion was caused by super-dense stars colliding, says NASA

A “game-changing” cosmic explosion was caused by the collision of two super-dense stars, according to a team of scientists.

Over the past year, researchers have studied a “high-energy bust” from the outskirts of the galaxy, some 1 billion light years away from Earth, that lasted about a minute.

The blast, named GRB 211211A, detected by NASA ’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has “rattled” experts’ understanding of the universe, according a NASA report.

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