I don't want to hear you complaining about your Cable Company any more. Maybe your signal is down for an hour or two in bad weather, but I'm sure it comes through soon enough. In the best of times, your live games are delayed by probably no more than a few mere seconds, which is nothing compared to the Gamma Ray Scientists saw explode in April. You could, in fact, say that the Gamma Ray was slightly more than somewhat delayed, as it actually exploded 13 billion years ago, making it the oldest thing ever witnessed from earth.
I can't even imagine what the scientist, who has the ephonious name of Edo Berger, said when he realized what he was witnessing, but I'm guessing it had to be something along the lines of "Holy Fucking Shit."
The star which exploded was 30 to 100 times larger than our own sun, and when it died, it gave off "about million times the amount of energy the sun will release in its entire lifetime," Berger told CNN by phone from Harvard University, where he is an assistant professor of astronomy.
Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB) (pictured on the left) for those of you like me who are new to the world of space, are believed to be flashes of Gamma Rays, which are basically Electromagnetic Radiation. The GRBs are in turn thought to form the always-enigmatic Black Holes.