explanation makes the most sense it's not the most exciting explanation it doesn't actually explain anything about the galaxy itself but it's the explanation that makes the most sense based on what we know about gamma ray bursts and even though initially the scientists in the original paper ruled out any potential satellites any potential minor planets or asteroids from being able to reflect and produce these flashes they did not consider all the other things such as space debris with this space debris being extremely large this is basically an engine part of a very large rocket large enough to reflect anything from the sun that would maybe appear as a typical flash we observed in this particular study and this explanation definitely makes a lot more sense than a gamma-ray burst once again because of the rarity so for example consider this this is the NUMBER_TOKEN gamma-ray bursts across the entire night skies detected over the period of eight years now imagine looking at the same spot an extremely small spot in the night skies for just five hours what's the chance that you're going to find another gamma reversed in that spot based on this image it's extremely low even though we usually detect at least one gamma ray burst per day it's extremely unlikely that it's going to be in that one spot you're looking at especially an extremely tiny spot where this really really distant galaxy is located but the debris whose orbit you see right here that was launched in NUMBER_TOKEN was just in the right location at the right time you can actually export this by yourself using the link in description below and so i guess we can maybe put this to rest although well not according to the scientists behind the original paper a few weeks ago they once again posted a reply saying that they sort of disagree with this explanation and they still do not believe that it was caused by this particular debris from this particular rocket and that's basically science at work until we have irrefutable proof from one side or the other side we're not really going to know for sure what caused this particular flash or if there's maybe some other unusual explanation that nobody considered just yet for now though even though it sounds a little bit unfortunate the very boring explanation involving space debris and the reflection from the sun seems to meet the occam's razor the easiest explanation is usually the best nevertheless if one day someone provides more proof that this was indeed some sort of a gamma-ray burst coming from this galaxy it could potentially have very important implications for just our understanding of how different stars and different black holes form in these early galaxies in the early universe and so i guess the story doesn't really end here just yet or maybe does but we don't want it to end but anyway once we find out what exactly is happening here i'll make sure to follow this up with another video more importantly though this galaxy is just really really fun to talk about again simply because it still is a record holder for the farthest galaxy we've ever found and because of this a lot of scientists want to find something else exciting here just so we can understand how the early universe evolved over time and so once we find something i'll follow this up with a future video until then thank you for watching subscribe if you still haven't share this with someone who loves learning about space and sciences and check out all the relevant links in the description below maybe support this channel patreon by joining a channel membership or
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