Mysterious gamma ray burst from dead star stuns scientists

Scientists have been left perplexed by an unprecedented burst of gamma rays originating from a pulsar, a dead star. The energy released was estimated to be ten trillion times that of visible light. Researchers are now trying to understand what could lead a pulsar to emit such an immense amount of energy. The recent study focused on the Vela pulsar, revealing it to be the brightest ever observed in the radio band and the brightest persistent source in the giga-electronvolts.