A cosmic surprise: Black hole merger may have sparked a gamma-ray burst
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Gravitational-wave detectors recorded two black holes merging 4.2 billion light-years away in November 2024, but unusually, telescopes detected gamma rays from the same sky region just seconds later. Scientists believe this rare pairing suggests the merger occurred within an active galactic nucleus disk, where dense gas could fuel powerful jets that produced the unexpected light burst.
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