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Black holes snacking on small stars create particle accelerators that bombard Earth with cosmic rays
"We would like to understand the difference between these systems, which holds the clue to understand just how many cosmic ...
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Gamma rays create Red Hulk in Captain America: Brave New World, but how do they work in the real world?
Brave New World is about to hit cinemas, bringing with it the gamma-ray-powered Red Hulk. Here's what you need to know about ...
Daily Galaxy on MSN5mon
NASA’s BurstCube Satellite Detects Powerful Gamma-Ray Burst in Breakthrough Discovery
NASA’s BurstCube satellite, a shoebox-sized CubeSat, has successfully detected its first gamma-ray burst (GRB)—one of the ...
Einstein Probe Detects Mysterious Blast of X-Rays From the Early Universe
On March 15, 2024, a space-based observatory detected bursts of low-energy X-rays from deep in the ancient universe, ...
Scientists find star-nibbling black holes are bombarding Earth with cosmic rays
Research has found black holes which 'nibble' on stars are contributing more than previously thought to the bombardment of ...
'Remarkable' cosmic explosion discovered in decades-old X-ray data
The "needle in the haystack" discovery of a powerful explosion from a mysterious unknown object outside our galaxy has ...
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NASA's mini BurstCube mission detects its first gamma-ray burst
like our mission's gamma-ray detector, but also important learning opportunities for the up-and-coming members of the astrophysics community." Provided by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...
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Did astronomers just witness the formation of a “strange star”?
According to their calculations, the observed data best matches the theoretical values that would be seen if GRB represented ...
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Astronomers unsure what caused 'weird explosion' seen by Einstein Probe's X-ray eye
Astronomers are trying to understand a mysterious cosmic explosion that the Einstein Probe spacecraft spotted in April last year.
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A year of 'out of this world' science achievements
In May, a new achievement in the field of quantum science was published in the journal Science, with Chinese scientists ...
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A Strange New Cosmic Explosion May Have Just Been Discovered
The event is designated EP240408a, as it was first detected by the Einstein Probe, an X-ray space telescope, on 8 April 2024. At a glance, it appeared to be a run-of-the-mill gamma ray burst, which ...
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Gamma-ray bursts challenge theoretical models
"This particular object radiates only faintly in the energy region where gamma rays have an energy of a few hundred million electron volts," explains Gaidos. "This is the region where the detector on ...