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Extra-Long Blasts Challenge Our Theories of Cosmic Cataclysms

The Quanta Podcast

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Explore how astronomers investigate a gamma-ray burst that defies previous assumptions, following a graduate student's discovery of intriguing similarities with an earlier event and the subsequent collaborative effort to study the phenomenon using telescopes in favorable weather conditions.

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