Astrophysics Says Gamma-Ray Bursts Release More Energy in Seconds Than the Sun Will Emit Across Its Entire Lifetime – and Several Have Occurred Close Enough to Have Left Measurable Traces in Earth’s Geological Record
If someone told you that, in the time it takes you to blink, the universe can unleash more energy than our Sun will manage in ten billion years, it sounds like a wild exaggeration. Yet that is almost exactly what astrophysicists say happens during the most powerful gamma-ray bursts, those fleeting, terrifying flashes of high‑energy ...












