On March 15, 2024, a space-based observatory detected bursts of low-energy X-rays from deep in the ancient universe, ...

"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 ...

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, ...

This Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) will help find the gamma rays – the ones using which light travelled billions of light years to reach Earth. It’s noted that Gamma-ray bursts mostly ...

Gamma-ray bursts are the most powerful explosions in the universe. Prof Soebur Razzaque from the University of Johannesburg (UJ) led a team of researchers modelling the behaviour of the first and ...

In 2018, astronomers took the first-ever picture of a black hole, a fascinating and unprecedented glimpse of an event horizon. And as it turns out, the black hole — dubbed M87* and located some ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern University postdoctoral fellow Peter Blanchard and his team detected the supernova for the first time, confirming GRB 221009A was the result of ...

Using NASA's Fermi space telescope, Italian astronomers have observed a radio source known as 3C 216. As a result, they detected increased gamma-ray activity from this source, including a strong ...

and gamma-ray bursts. This is expected to boost India's standing in global cosmic ray research. The telescope measures 21 metres in diameter, weighs 175 tonnes, and features a reflector area of ...