• Chais@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Well, space isn’t a perfect vacuum, is it? It’s pretty damn close, but you’ll still encounter the occasional hydrogen molecule.
    I mean, were talking about 1.7 seconds delay over a distance of 130 million lightyears! That’s virtually nothing.

  • John_Hasler@lemmy.one
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    They are not emitted simultaneously. The collision is messy. The GRB comes from leftover bits of neutron star.