Gamma-ray burst
![](https://cdn.sci.esa.int/documents/33839/35420/1567216625162-XMM-Newton_Gamma-ray_burst_illustration_625.jpg)
Date: 11 July 2014
Satellite: XMM-Newton
Copyright: ESA, illustration by ESA/ECF
Artist's impression of a gamma-ray burst, a flash of very energetic radiation associated with a distance galaxy.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
Artist's impression of a gamma-ray burst, a flash of very energetic radiation associated with a distance galaxy.