What is the brightest flash ever detected?

The brightest detected flash was observed on December 27, 2004. Its source was Magnetar , a form of a neutron star with a powerful magnetic field and a weight larger than the sun condensed into the size of a small town. With emissions, especially in the gamma beam in the spectrum, this explosion has released more energy in a tenth of a second than the sun produces in 100,000 years.

Magnetar is 50,000 light -years, about half a distance across the galaxy. If the explosion, not only the brightest flash of the century, but perhaps the last thousand years of galactic history - has occurred within 10 light years from the ground, it could undress the atmosphere and cause a mass extinction.

The exact cause of the explosion is still unknown. Imagine a ball of 20 km (12 miles) across, so massive that each teaspoon of its material weighs two million tonnes and rotates every 7.5 seconds, with a magnetic field such a thick short distance of Venus Orbit. These types of the object are pushing the extremes of physics so closely that we have about themonly limited knowledge.

"Star Query" - Internal Reorganization of Matter - could cause explosion or magnetic reconnection, a scenario in which the magnetic field suddenly equals and releases the brightest flash that Galaxy has seen in years. The brightest flash could even come from a neutron star, which collapsed into an even smaller thicker hypothetical body, the so -called Quark Star.

Although this explosion was the brightest flash ever observed, you couldn't see it with the naked eye, because it comes mainly in the gamma beam. This can be expected because gamma rays are a different type of radiation created by particles on the atomic core scale, such as neutrons, about the neutron star Made. Visible light is emitted on a scale of molecules, radiating prominently in known chemical reactions. How ironic that the brightest flash of the universe would not feel for us soSure, unless it was so close that it encouraged our atmosphere.