GRB 110328A
A 3.8 billion-light-year galaxy
with a supermassive black hole
that has swallowed a bypassing star.
Image credit: NASA’s Hubble Space
Telescope, Wide Field Camera 3
April 4, 2011
A pale shimmer
Beyond her darkened face
A fragranced effusion
Along a vaulted trajectory
So far and away
At last receiving
Our hypnotic whispers
The doomed star
In a black hole’s grasp
The fading light
And flickering dust
Burning out
Her death cry
A wrenching echo
LiNdA
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