|  |  | Fastest-Ever Flashgun Captures Image of Light Wave technology.newscientist.com — However hard you stare, you would still miss it. Researchers have found a way to generate the shortest-ever flash of light â€“ 80 attoseconds (billionths of a billionth of a second) long. Such flashes have already been used to capture an image of a laser pulse too short to be "photographed" before (see right).More... (General Sciences) Comments Email Added 2008-06-20 01:07:22 mpind176