Sentences with phrase «between gamma ray bursts»

Not exact matches

Black holes gobble up some matter and launch the rest away in powerful jets, scattering atoms within and between galaxies; pairs of neutron stars, also targets of Advanced LIGO, may ultimately trigger gamma - ray bursts, among the brightest and most energetic explosions known in the universe.

MYSTERIOUS gamma ray bursts that occur in the first moments of a storm, as lightning jumps between clouds, hint at where lightning comes from.

Schaefer combined six different measurements of gamma - ray bursts to figure their distance and to probe how the universe has changed between their location and ours.

Although terrestrial gamma - ray flashes typically last between 300 and 400 microseconds, the burst observed by the satellite sensors in 2006 lasted a mere 70 microseconds, the researchers report online and in a forthcoming issue of Geophysical Research Letters.

COULD the mysterious bursts of gamma rays that come from all parts of the sky be caused by distant collisions between balls of nuclear material measuring just 10 kilometres across?

The formation of short gamma - ray bursts lasting less than two seconds from a meger between two neutron stars to create a black hole has been modelled with a supercomputer (more).