"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 first-ever photographed black hole emits an extraordinary gamma-ray flare, billions of times more energetic than visible ...

In space, they’re thought to originate from a star exploding as a supernova or from two dense neutron stars—the leftovers of a supernovae—colliding with each other. This gamma-ray burst has ...

a space-based X-ray telescope launched primarily by China in January 2024. The Einstein Probe has the Wide X-Ray Telescope, ...

Scientists have discovered intense bursts of gamma rays from thunderclouds ... "They’re almost impossible to detect from ...

Satellites captured images of how the gamma blast lit up dust rings in space Scientists have revealed how Nasa satellites detected the brightest gamma ray explosion in space. The gamma-ray burst ...

This illustration shows the ingredients of a long gamma-ray burst, the most common type ... moving through the collapsing star and out into space at nearly the speed of light.

As with Swift, GRBs are initially located with a coded-mask X-ray ... Space Sciences Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, 50R-5005, University of California at Berkeley, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA ...

A number of mysterious gamma-ray bursts appear as lonely flashes of intense ... Using data from some of the most powerful telescopes on Earth and in space, including the twin Gemini telescopes ...

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The source was a gamma-ray burst, or GRB—the most powerful class ... NASA's NuSTAR observatory and even Voyager 1 in interstellar space. Alexander and other scientists presented new findings ...

But on that same day - less than half a second after LIGO made its monumental discovery - the Fermi Telescope, a space observatory ... what's known as a gamma ray burst, a flash of the most ...