Gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful kinds of explosions known in the cosmos, may help provide a piece of the puzzle when it ...

Where are the particles responsible for the emission of gamma rays accelerated ... same black hole erupt with a powerful and unexpected explosion. Scientists hope that by studying this emission ...

Gamma-ray bursts typically emit as much energy in a few seconds as an entire galaxy of stars will emit in years. Think about this: a single sudden explosion, which becomes as bright as the ...

What's the deadliest part of a supernova explosion? To estimate this we ... Well, what about other wavelengths of light like X-rays and gamma rays? The good thing here is that supernovae tend ...

But before you get too complacent, there's an entire other category of cosmic explosion. These are the gamma ray bursts. There are two kinds of gamma ray bursts. One kind is triggered by neutron ...

From left to right, NASA Marshall engineers Carlos Diaz and John Luke Bili, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory mechanical ...

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, ...

These super-intense beams of gamma radiation - the gamma-ray bursts - are created by the most powerful type of stellar explosion: a hypernova. Hypernovae are a more spectacular version of the ...