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Astronomers missed a space explosion as powerful as a billion suns — until they spotted its echo
A cosmic explosion with an energy level equivalent to the output of a billion of suns went unnoticed by astronomers — until they caught the "echo" of this so-called gamma-ray burst, that is.
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