Radio Sources Flares and Disappears (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Radio Sources Flares and Disappears

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The radio source -- an orphan gamma ray burst -- flared and died out over a period of 25 years. Now very faint, its peak brightness in 1993 was more than 50 times what it is today.

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NRAO

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