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and gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions since the Big Bang, the cause of which is still shrouded in mystery. While Space.com can't make you as well-versed in gamma science as Bruce ...

gamma-ray bursts. Though gamma-ray bursts only last from a few milliseconds to a couple of minutes, they can be hundreds of times brighter than an average supernova. That means a gamma-ray burst ...

After monitoring the burst at radio wavelengths for a period of three months, the team of astronomers behind the detection confirmed that the energy output was consistent with a gamma-ray burst ...

The burst was linked to GRB 240315C, a gamma-ray burst, but its characteristics—like a 6-minute delay between X-rays and gamma rays—challenge existing theories of GRB formation. Weimin Yuan, ...

An illustration shows a gamma-ray burst erupting from a dying massive star. (Image credit: Robert Lea (created by Canva)) First detected in 1967, gamma-ray bursts may be much more familiar to ...

China has detected a gamma-ray burst, designated as EP240315a, that originated approximately 12.5 billion light years away using its Einstein Probe (EP) astronomical satellite, also known as the ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the greater mysteries facing astronomers today, rivaled only by gravitational waves (GWs) and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Originally discovered in 2007 by American ...

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"It produced an incredibly energetic initial burst that lasted for only 10s ... releasing a huge amount of gamma rays in a very short time. If XRT 200515 is an X-ray counterpart to such an ...