Reply to post: Re: "the emissions are 100 billion times brighter than those from the Sun"

Years after we detected two neutron stars crashing into each other, we're still picking up X-rays. We don't know why

Cynic_999

Re: "the emissions are 100 billion times brighter than those from the Sun"

Don't forget to factor in doppler shift. What started as visible, X-ray, infra-red etc. may not be in those bands when we observe them.

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