Watch an animation of a black hole shooting jets of particles through a "collapsing star at nearly the speed of light" and ...
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 ...
Our viewing guide tells you which planets are visible in October's night sky and how you can see them. October makes for an excellent month for viewing planets in he night sky. Venus remains 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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
In 2014, a blind astronomer “sonified” the universe’s most explosive event: a gamma-ray burst. By listening to, rather than looking at, the data, she made a critical discovery and changed the field of ...
Astronomers from the University of Maryland and the Michigan Technological University, have inspected a mysterious ultra-high energy gamma-ray source known as LHAASO J2108+5157. Results of the ...
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