"Exploding Black Holes -- More Energy in a Second than the Sun in a Billion Years"

Image of the Day: "Exploding Black Holes -- More Energy in a Second than the Sun in a Billion Years": "Gamma Ray Bursts are the brightest things to happen to the Universe since its beginning -- extraordinarily intense electromagnetic events releasing more energy per second than the sun does in a billion years, and basically an excuse for astronomers to use every awesome adjective they know. "