What If a Gamma-Ray Burst Hit a Black Hole? Last year, scientists reported that they had seen evidence that gamma-ray bursts could come out of mergers between neutron stars and another compact ...
Now, another Northwestern team offers a potential explanation for what generated the unprecedented and incredibly luminous burst of light. The study, "Large-scale evolution of seconds-long ...
The world’s brightest X-ray machine has just produced its first record-breaking X-rays, which will allow researchers to observe atoms, molecules and chemical reactions in unmatched detail.
Distinguishing between different types of gamma-ray bursts just got a lot more complicated. A gamma-ray burst (GRB), typically associated with an exploding massive star, may have in fact come from ...
When you think of a radiation detector, you’re probably thinking of a Geiger tube and its high voltage circuitry. That isn’t the only way to measure gamma radiation, though, and [Alan] has a ...
Scientists from Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics have introduced a new method to measure moderately saturated ...
Astronomers have witnessed a young, sun-like star blasting out high-energy gamma radiation for the first time. The observation represents the first evidence that this type of low-mass star, called ...
CHICAGO: An international team of astronomers has captured the first-ever polarized radio waves from a distant cosmic explosion, known as gamma-ray burst GRB 190114C. Astronomers have hypothesized ...
Sep. 18, 2023 — New research is challenging the scientific status quo on the limits of the nuclear chart in hot stellar environments where temperatures reach ...
SAN ANTONIO – Something very rare will be happening in our skies on Aug. 30. We will experience a super blue moon — and it will be the biggest and brightest moon this year. At 12:56 a.m. on ...
A gamma-ray burst (GRB), typically associated with an exploding massive star, may have in fact come from the merger of a neutron star and a black hole. The existence of this burst, designated GRB ...
