Sentences with phrase «how gamma ray bursts»

Dr Sarri explains: «We thought that the best way to work out how gamma ray bursts are produced would be to mimic them in small - scale reproductions in the laboratory — reproducing a little source of these beams and look at how they evolve when left on their own.

Not exact matches

This paper shows how much can be done, but to get results like this consistently, we will need new rapid - response facilities for observing gamma - ray bursts.»

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.

They then measured how changing the cosmological constant affected the universe's density, paying particular attention to what that meant about gamma ray bursts raining down radiation on stars and planets.

We can only imagine how premature sharing could deflate a unified field theory or mangle an explanation for the origination of gamma - ray bursts.

Then computer programs will sift through the huge database, looking at how quasars and gamma - ray bursts change over decades.

So Loeb and colleagues calculated just how big an asteroid, how strong a supernova, or how powerful a gamma - ray burst would have to be to inject that much energy into Earth's oceans.

Its light is three times brighter now, which may change how we think of gamma ray bursts

On March 31, 2011, scientists submitted a revised paper describing how they used a supercomputer to model the formation of short gamma - ray bursts (GRBs) that have been detected as lasting less than two seconds.

Enrico Ramirez - Ruiz studies stellar explosions, gamma - ray bursts and how material accretes onto dense objects such as black holes and neutron stars.

Gamma - ray bursts come in two varieties — long and short — depending on how long the flash of gamma rays lGamma - ray bursts come in two varieties — long and short — depending on how long the flash of gamma rays lgamma rays lasts.