Sentences with phrase «explosive burst of gamma rays»
Caltech and Penn State astronomers have found an explosive burst of gamma rays that seem to come from nowhere.
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The blast, called a gamma ray burst (GRB), probably arose from the explosive death of a star when the universe was just 900 million years old.
FRBs are probably not directly related to long gamma ray bursts (another type of explosive event that preferentially occurs in dwarf galaxies), because there are just too few gamma ray bursts and too many FRBs.
Such violent burps may actually be the most common type of explosive «gamma - ray burst» in the universe.
«NIRES is expected to be one of the most efficient single - object, near - infrared spectrographs on an eight to ten - meter telescope, designed to study explosive, deep sky phenomena such as supernovae and gamma ray bursts, a capability that is in high demand.»