Student Finds Mega-Explosion in Space, Overlooked By Scientists

"How's this for an undergraduate project: A student at West Virginia University has uncovered an oversight in six-year-old radio telescope data that researchers believe could open up whole new fields of study in astrophysics...another look at the data has convinced scientists that in fact the burst was real, emanating from a point some 1.5 billion light years away, far enough away that any ordinary energy surge should have been very faint.

"Now scientists think they may have recorded a catastrophic event such as two neutron stars colliding, or the final evaporation of a black hole."

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