Sentences with phrase «mysterious burst of energy»

Two researchers have suggested that mysterious bursts of energy could propel alien spaceships around the universe — if such alien travellers happen to exist

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Gamma - ray bursts are mysterious flashes of intense high - energy radiation that appear from random directions in space.

They could have emerged from gamma - ray bursts, mysterious and short - lived cataclysms that briefly rank as the brightest objects in the universe; shock waves from exploding stars; or so - called blazars, jets of energy powered by supermassive black holes.

Arecibo's recent work includes searching for gravitational waves by the effect they have on the clocklike regularity of dead stars called pulsars; watching for mysterious blasts of energy called fast radio bursts (SN Online: 12/21/16); and keeping tabs on near - Earth asteroids.

In April a team of astronomers finally confirmed the origin of mysterious high - energy bursts of gamma rays that randomly pervade the universe about twice a day.

Astrophysicists using a telescope embedded in Antarctic ice have succeeded in a quest to detect and record the mysterious phenomena known as cosmic neutrinos — nearly massless particles that stream to Earth at the speed of light from outside our solar system, striking the surface in a burst of energy that can be as powerful as a baseball pitcher's fastball.

But the amount of energy converted into gamma rays is just what is required to explain the mysterious gamma - ray bursts, Piran calculates.

A giant flash of energy from a supermagnetic neutron star thousands of light - years from Earth may shed a whole new light on scientists» understanding of such mysterious magnetars and of gamma - ray bursts.

The mysterious flash of high - energy burst, called FRB 150215, was detected in February 2015 using the Parkes radio telescope in Australia.