 In January 2019, an extremely bright and long-duration gamma ray burst, named GRB-1901-14C, was detected by a suite of telescopes. This Hubble image, taken a few weeks later, caught the fading afterglow of the event in the center of the green circle. A short-lived afterglow was located 4.5 billion light-years away and almost 800 light-years from the galaxy's core. This gamma ray burst was one of the most powerful ever recorded. In just a few seconds, it emitted more energy than the sun will produce over its entire 10 billion-year lifespan. Astrophysicists calculate that to acquire this much energy, matter has to be the emitted from a collapsing star at 99.999% of the speed of light. Then as the star's material is forced through the gas that surrounds the star, a shock creates the gamma ray burst. This is an artist's depiction of what this might look like.