The brightest gamma ray burst ever detected recently reached our planet. It’s 70 times longer than any other burst we’ve spotted, and effectively blinded our instruments when it hit.

The brightest gamma-ray burst ever detected is revealing new mysteries as scientists study it in greater detail. In two new papers – one published today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters ...

Fifty years ago, on June 1, 1973, astronomers around the world were introduced to a powerful and perplexing new phenomenon ...

In October, scientists were stunned by the detection of the brightest gamma ray burst, intense explosions observed in distant galaxies, known to man. Dazzled by its striking flash, scientists ...

Scientists have revealed how Nasa satellites detected the brightest gamma ray explosion in space. The gamma-ray burst (GRB) occurred two billion light-years from Earth and illuminated much of the ...

Earlier this year, astronomers spotted a gamma ray burst that they’ve labeled “the brightest of all time.” Yet a gamma ray burst is only a single exploding star. When far more mass is ...

Last year, astronomers witnessed the brightest explosion on record—a gamma-ray burst known as GRB 221009A. While this was brighter than AT2021lwx, it lasted for just a fraction of the time ...

Impossible' neutron stars could explain strange flashes — Astronomers identify 1st twin stars doomed to collide in kilonova explosion — Brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen a 1-in ...

On June 25, 2016, one of the brightest gamma-ray bursts in the history of observations ... the polarization of the gamma-ray burst's own radiation was measured. An article in Nature was devoted to ...

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That isn’t the only way to measure gamma radiation, though, and [Alan] has a great circuit to measure even relatively weak radiation sources. It uses a very small photodiode, and draws so little ...