NASA's Hubble finds telltale fireball after gamma-ray burst The Hubble Space Telescope witnessed a previously unobserved stellar blast called a kilono

[Sheila]

 candidate for short gamma ray bursts

 

 

http://www.astronomy.com/en/News-Observing/News/2013/08/NASAs%20Hubble%20finds%20telltale%20fireball%20after%20gamma-ray%20burst.aspx

[Tibbz2]

Candidate for longest thread title more like

[xanthic]

So did it also cause associated gravity waves? Would be nice to get that theory proven or put to rest.

[Perkil8r]

Interesting and at last an answer to where they come from. Gravitational waves, now there's a whole new kettle of fish.

[Sheila]

So did it also cause associated gravity waves? Would be nice to get that theory proven or put to rest.

gravity waves..... lets not go there quite yet

[Perkil8r]

I'm not even convinced the fridge light goes off when I shut the door, so Gravitational Waves are certainly outside of my comfort zone

[xanthic]

I thought Gravity Probe B was looking for exactly that kind of thing. A double collapsar should cause a bit of a ripple I'd have thought!

[Tibbz2]

Maybe the lack of any kind of info on that side of things would suggest they haven't really detected anything on the gravitational waves front?

Edited August 7, 2013 by Tibbz2

[xanthic]

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vnfv/ncurrent/full/nature12505.html

 

Just found the article on Nature. Last sentence states - "It also suggests that kilonovae offer an alternative, unbeamed electromagnetic signature of the most promising sources for direct detection of gravitational waves."