Highly energetic explosions in the sky are commonly attributed to gamma-ray bursts. We now understand that these bursts originate from either the merger of two neutron stars or the collapse of a ...

A massive burst of gamma rays produced by the explosion of a star almost two billion light-years away was so powerful that it changed Earth’s atmosphere, according to scientists. Gamma rays are ...

Watch an animation of a black hole shooting jets of particles through a "collapsing star at nearly the speed of light" and ...

On March 15, 2024, a space-based observatory detected bursts of low-energy X-rays from deep in the ancient universe, ...

"The gamma-ray burst traveled through intergalactic space at the speed of light for eleven billion years, during which time the Sun and the planets were born." — Timothy Ferris, in the film ...

Researchers believe that a supernova in our galaxy could reveal the secrets of dark matter by emitting detectable gamma rays ...

Scientists discover low-mass microquasars can accelerate cosmic rays, reshaping theories on high-energy particle origins.

The Einstein Probe detected a 17-minute soft X-ray burst from 12.5 billion light-years away, challenging gamma-ray burst ...

The Einstein Probe is revolutionizing our view of the distant X-ray universe, offering an unprecedented look at some of the ...

For that, you need something like this gamma-ray spectroscope ... to protect the hygroscopic crystal from both humidity and light. There’s also a temperature sensor on the detector board ...