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Brightest-Ever Space Explosion Reveals Possible Hints of Dark Matter

The Quanta Podcast

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The GRB's Jet Was Pointed at Us

The gamma-ray burst occurred about 2.4 billion light-years from Earth. It's also likely that the boat's powerful jet was pointed toward us. One possibility is that a high-energy photon was converted into an axion-like particle.

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