Unraveling the Mystery of the Brightest Cosmic Explosion Ever Recorded.

The Brightest of All Time (BOAT) cosmic explosion, caused by the collapse of a massive star and the birth of a black hole, was angled directly at Earth and dragged along an unusually large amount of stellar material in its wake, according to an international team of astrophysicists. The team's findings, published in Science Advances, suggest that the GRB had a unique structure, with a narrow jet embedded within a wider gas outflow. The researchers believe that the amount of mixing between the stellar material and the jet made the difference in this case, resulting in the slow fade of the afterglow.