Sentences with phrase «first burst of gamma rays»

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A Queen's University Belfast scientist has recreated the first ever mini version of a gamma ray burst in a laboratory, opening up a whole new way to investigate their properties and potentially unlocking some of the mysteries around alien civilisation.

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.

He has now been able to prove for the first time, some of the key phenomena that play a major role in producing gamma ray bursts.

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

Discovery of the gamma - ray «bang» from FRB 131104, the first non-radio counterpart to any FRB, was made possible by NASA's Earth - orbiting Swift satellite, which was observing the exact part of the sky where FRB 131104 occurred as the burst was detected by the Parkes Observatory radio telescope in Parkes, Australia.

This 4.1 - meter telescope in Chile first spied the fireball of the farthest gamma ray burst yet seen (circled).

First, it explains the origins of some gamma ray bursts, the second most powerful known events in the cosmos other than merging black holes.

A burst of gamma rays segued into a glow of visible and infrared light, first spotted about 12 hours after the smashup.

It was the first time scientists pinpointed a short gamma - ray burst (lasting less than a second), which probably occurs during a collision of dense neutron stars.

«Gamma - ray bursts are uniquely powerful and probably the only way for a very long time to observe the moment of first light — that redshift when the very first stars formed,» Lamb remarks.

In the paper, the research team discovered for the first time a change of the composition of the gamma - ray burst (GRB) jet in one source, dubbed GRB 160625B.

LIGO was the first to detect the signals as gravitational waves, before 70 observatories around the world joined in to watch the fireworks in the form of visible light, radio waves, X-rays and a gamma ray burst.

First limits on the very - high energy gamma - ray afterglow emission of a fast radio burst.

A team of astronomers using a pair of National Science Foundation radio telescopes has made the first measurements of the size and expansion of a mysterious, intense fireball resulting from a cosmic gamma ray burst last May.

Astronomers have used the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array radio telescope to make the first detection of radio emission from a cosmic gamma - ray burst.

Fryer's computational astrophysics work involving the largest explosions in the universe has impacted some of the most important open questions in astrophysics, including the origin of the elements, the nature and evolution of the first stars, the gravitational wave signals from compact binary systems, and the mechanism responsible for gamma ray bursts.

A specialized camera on a telescope operated by U.K. astronomers from Liverpool has made the first measurement of magnetic fields in the afterglow of a gamma - ray burst (GRB).