How is it that a Gamma Ray Burst puts out more energy than the rest of the universe during the time that the GRB is happening? A physicist said that this happens and I won't to know how. Please leave sources for your info.
2007-04-28 07:42:58 · 6 answers · asked by James M 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Hmm. I think I saw that documentary, but I have no idea how that could be possible. Maybe you can find some info on wikipedia.org.
2007-04-28 07:47:01 · answer #1 · answered by Spilamilah 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It doesn't put out more energy than the rest of the universe - it just puts out more energy faster than any other object in the universe (not all of them combined). About as much as a supernova, only faster, and then usually followed by a supernova.
It puts out all this energy because it's the violent end of a supermassive star. The star collapses to a black hole in the center with an accretion disk made up of the interior of a star, and the infalling material from the rest of the star drives jets along the rotataion axes of the star. These jets extend out of the star, and are made up of shells of material, which emit gamma rays as they collide and an 'afterglow' in pretty much all wavelengths as they extend further out of the star.
Another type of burst is produced when neutron stars collide. It's the same mechanism in the end, but doesn't put out quite as much energy.
Bursts put out 10^51 ergs of energy, or about what you'd get if you converted 1/100th of the Sun directly to energy.
2007-04-28 09:29:28 · answer #2 · answered by eri 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The current view is that GRBs are produced when two neutron stars merge. They don't put out as much energy as the rest of the universe, but they definitely put out more than the rest of their host galaxies.
2007-04-28 08:19:25 · answer #3 · answered by mathematician 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a grb is caused when two neutron stars collide. this puts out more energy than the host galaxy, but not the universe, if someone said that it put out more energy than the entire universe they would be lying or simply unaware of the facts,
2007-04-28 08:29:29 · answer #4 · answered by Tim C 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't have a source for u but there are few things out there that have that much power and it is a black hole. There is one in the center of each Galaxy ,and I don't know what triggers it but the power is off the top of the scale.
2007-04-28 07:51:30 · answer #5 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no body knows. they used to think they were in the milky way, but nope, so for all we know we can be totaly wrong still. those are som big booms. grbs are cool.
2007-04-28 09:23:09 · answer #6 · answered by vern 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋