Not exact matches
Dr Gianluca Sarri from the School
of Mathematics and Physics at Queen's University has led an international team
of researchers to
create the first small - scale replica
of gamma ray bursts.
Hafnium bombs: In an episode reminiscent
of the Cold Fusion debacle, DARPA forked out $ 7 million in the 1990s for research into a bomb predicted to release huge
gamma -
ray bursts without
creating any nuclear fallout.
The Caltech Center for Advanced Computing Research's VOEventNet project, which
created a virtual observatory by linking a number
of telescopes, introduced a software program this week that works with Sky, allowing users to post and view images and video
of transient phenomena such as exploding and colliding stars,
gamma -
ray bursts, and supernovae within minutes
of their detection.
The black hole shoots jets
of particles through the star at nearly the speed
of light and astronomers believe they
create the
gamma -
ray bursts.
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).