• AnAngryDumpster@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        one of our major extinction events may have been caused by a gamma-ray burst. Emphasis on may, we haven’t arrived at certainty on that one.

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          Makes me wonder how large the “cone” of such a burst can get and how often GRBs happen in absolute terms if this tiny target gets hit twice in only a couple of million years. Anyone an expert on this?

          Also, I’ll never sleep again.