“This event represents an exciting paradigm shift for gamma-ray burst astronomy.”
Rastinejad leda study on the discoverypublished Wednesday in the journal Nature.
“A little bit of mass accretes and then powers a very short-duration burst.
“We now realize that gamma-ray bursts are much harder to classify.
This detection pushes our understanding of gamma-ray bursts to the limits.”
“We don’t expect mergers to last more than about two seconds.
Studying more of these events will help us determine which is the right answer.”
