When a distant galaxy briefly outshines everything around it in high-energy light, astronomers usually know which playbook to reach for. Gamma-ray bursts tend to fall into familiar categories, either ...
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A 7-hour gamma-ray blast just broke astronomers’ expectations
The longest gamma-ray burst ever recorded did not roar for seconds or even minutes, but for a staggering seven hours, forcing ...
image: Maia Williams, a research technologist at Penn State and a member of Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory's Missions Operation Center, was on call the day that the brightest gamma-ray burst ever ...
"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 version of ...
Scientists have been all aflutter since several space-based detectors picked up a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB) in October 2022—a burst so energetic that astronomers nicknamed it the BOAT (Brightest ...
Astronomers are trying to understand what caused a series of gamma ray bursts, or GRBs — the most powerful explosions in the universe. These energetic bursts are typically unleashed by the incendiary ...
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