WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- An international team of astronomers has observed extremely rapid bursts of high-energy gamma rays from a distant galaxy, an observation that is challenging how astronomers ...
"The gamma-ray burst traveled through intergalactic space at the speed of light for eleven billion years, during which time the Sun and the planets were born." — Timothy Ferris, in the film ...
The highly energetic explosion was initially attributed to a burst of gamma rays emitted either by the collision of two neutron stars or from the death of a massive star. Soon, however ...
Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A massive burst of gamma rays produced by the explosion of a star almost two billion light-years away was so powerful that it ...
On March 15, 2024, a space-based observatory detected bursts of low-energy X-rays from deep in the ancient universe, ...
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The study revealed 67 short sub-second X-ray bursts, with the brightest lasting approximately 90 milliseconds, providing insights into the Magnetar's emission properties. The findings, published ...
Astronomers using NASA's observatories and India's AstroSat have witnessed a massive ... this second object collides with the disk, causing bursts of X-rays as it passes through the stellar ...
Was a powerful cosmic explosion seen by the Einstein Probe launched by a supermassive black hole snacking on a star, by a gamma-ray burst, or by something entirely new?