Death From Space: Here’s How Gamma Rays Could Wipe

Death From Space: Here’s How Gamma Rays Could Wipe Out Life As We Know It COSMIC SNIPERS For most of us, snipers evoke some unsettling imagery—a lone cold-blooded gunman, undetectable, and on the hunt. Operating from afar, these marksmen eliminate their target with precision. Without hesitation. Now, let’s scale it further. Imagine a cosmic sniper, packing the fire power of billions of stars from thousands of galaxies, firing its weapon towards us. What’d happen you ask? We’d be totally obliterated. As explained by Kurzgesagt’s latest episode, cosmic snipers, in the form of black holes, can actually emit extremely powerful energies called gamma ray bursts (GRB). So powerful that if it was shot even a few thousand light-years away from us, it would totally overwhelm our ozone layer, stripping it off completely, leaving the planet scorched by the Sun’s radiation.

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