Discovery of the Luminous, Decades-Long, Extragalactic Radio Transient FIRST J141918.9+394036 — mentioned by _fmhg

Tue, 09 Oct 2018 17:18:56 GMT

Science Daily altered one sentence from the originally regurgitated PR, and I think it thoughtlessly corrupted its entire meaning. SD: "The blast generates two jets of gamma rays which travel out..." PR: "The blast generates two jets which travel out ... The jets emit gamma rays,..." Implication from their creative edit is that the blast itself shot out gamma rays (photons) at light speed, whereas the paper's authors actually described something else, a decades-long process of ejecta compressing and interacting to create gamma emissions. "The long time baseline of this event offers the best…

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Discovery of the Luminous, Decades-Long, Extragalactic Radio Transient FIRST J141918.9+394036 — mentioned by _fmhg