Officials said geomagnetic activity is likely to increase with the arrival of an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection.
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Scientists say the best explanation for the longest gamma ray burst is that a black hole consumed a star, but they disagree on exactly how it happened.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of the event on the Sun.
The US government's scientific weather forecasting agency said a powerful geomagnetic solar storm reached dangerous levels.