Scientists may be a step closer to discovering how gamma-ray bursts come to be some of the most powerful explosions in the ...
Swift is a multiwavelength space telescope that scientists are using to find out more about these mysterious gamma-ray ...
NEW DELHI: The brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever recorded by scientists, in October 2022, was the result of a collapse and subsequent explosion of a massive star, or supernova, revealed a new study ...
In a unique cosmic event, scientists have detected a burst of gamma rays originating from a rare magnetar in the nearby ...
Detected in galaxy M82—better known as the Cigar Galaxy and one of the easiest to see with a backyard telescope at this time ...
While all neutron stars boast powerful magnetic fields, magnetars stand out with fields exceeding 10,000 times that of a ...
Gamma rays are a broad category of high-energy photons, including everything with more energy than an X-ray. While they are ...
While ESA's satellite INTEGRAL was observing the sky, it spotted a burst of gamma-rays -- high-energy photons -- coming from the nearby galaxy M82. Only a few hours later, ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray space ...
Astronomers just caught a dead star in a distant galaxy throwing a massive temper tantrum.
“We immediately realised that this was a special alert. Gamma-ray bursts come from far-away and anywhere in the sky, but this ...
Recent research by Dr. Jon Hakkila and team, from The University of Alabama in Huntsville, aimed to decipher the enigmatic ...