2.4 x 10^9 light years away, so not in our galaxy by a very large measure.

I think the meaning was more, that our galaxy can't produce such events, so that's one thing we don't have to worry about in our galaxy.

Edit: a (to me) random site [0] says the Milky Way does not have an active galactic nucleus.

0: https://socratic.org/questions/does-the-milky-way-have-an-ac...

Okay, missed that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_galactic_nucleus says

"An active galactic nucleus (AGN) is a compact region at the center of a galaxy that has a much-higher-than-normal luminosity over at least some portion of the electromagnetic spectrum with characteristics indicating that the luminosity is not produced by stars. Such excess non-stellar emission has been observed in the radio, microwave, infrared, optical, ultra-violet, X-ray and gamma ray wavebands. A galaxy hosting an AGN is called an "active galaxy". The non-stellar radiation from an AGN is theorized to result from the accretion of matter by a supermassive black hole at the center of its host galaxy."

Do we? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A\* says

"Sagittarius A*, abbreviated Sgr A* is the supermassive black hole[4][5][6] at the Galactic Center of the Milky Way"

Front row seat! Get in!

Sgr A* isn't a very active black hole (meaning that it's accreting only very little matter), compared to black holes at the center of AGNs.

Is that so? There is the theory that our galaxy could be a Seyffert Galaxy, we just haven't witnessed it so far.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00717870

https://earthsky.org/space/explosion-milky-way-center-seyfer...

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49955468

Edit: I meant to say that our galaxy could, and has had such fits of rage, not that this event could have come from it.

These types of GRBs are caused by the death of massive stars with low metallicity, not active galactic nuclei. There absolutely could be a GRB inside of the milky way galaxy pointed at us, but it is very unlikely.