Sentences with phrase «near gamma ray bursts»
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A gamma ray burst is thought to emerge when jets of hot matter moving at near — light - speed shoot out along the rotational axis of the newborn black hole, beaming radiation into space like a lighthouse.
A probe of the galaxy with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 on June 13, 2013, revealed a glow in near - infrared light at the source of the gamma - ray burst, shown in the image at top, right.
The definitive evidence came from Hubble observations in near - infrared light of the fading fireball produced in the aftermath of a short gamma - ray burst (GRB).
«But this new theory predicts that when you compare near - infrared and optical images of a short gamma - ray burst about a week after the blast, the kilonova should pop out in the infrared, and that's exactly what we're seeing.»
Combined with the fact that bursts seem to evolve from energetic gamma rays to X-rays to visible light, which means they cool off over time, the radio data supported the idea that they are huge fireballs, expanding at near - light - speed and cooling as they go.
Schaefer realized that only a gamma - ray burst, the most powerful type of explosion ever observed, is bright enough to give us information about conditions near the edge of the visible universe, more than 13 billion light - years away.
Gamma rays usually follow the death of a massive star but these bursts were 88,000 light - years from the nearest galaxy.
These profiles are different from those of known type Ic supernovae, with or without a gamma ray burst, and they can be understood if SN 2003jd was an aspherical axisymmetric explosion viewed from near the equatorial plane.
«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.»
On January 31, 2000, a brief burst of gamma rays was detected by an network of satellites (Ulysses, NEAR and Konus) via the InterPlanetary Network (Hurley et al, 2000).
Additionally, Gao has done many observations timely to gamma - ray bursts, near - Earth objects, comets, variable stars, etc..