According to the researchers, life on Earth is threatened by gamma-ray bursts that arrive to our planet from deep parts of the Milky Way, reports informing.ru.

According to the scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the possibility that gamma-ray bursts reach the Earth is 35-60%. The scientists made a computer model to further study the effects of gamma-ray bursts in the galaxy.

Gamma-ray bursts occur in the process of transformation of the neutron star into a black hole. At that point, the amount of energy released is comparable to 10 billion years of the sun glow.

The study showed that flashes can destroy the entire life on the planet. According to scientists, the solar system is also threatened by this dangerous radiation, and if the Earth appears into the wave of gamma-ray bursts, the entire life on the planet will die.

Initially, gamma radiation destroys the ozone layer, which will provoke an increase of UV radiation on the Earth by 16 times.