Highly energetic explosions in the sky are commonly attributed to gamma-ray bursts. We now understand that these bursts ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A massive burst of gamma rays produced by the explosion of a star almost two billion light-years away was so powerful that it ...

The 25 ground-based and orbiting telescopes that comprise the EHT saw the outburst as high-energy light called gamma rays. Not only was this the first time M87* had flared since 2010, but the ...

Now, this same black hole is once again captivating scientists with an extraordinary gamma-ray flare that’s emitted photons hundreds of billions of times more powerful than visible light.

"They find out that the burns on his chest do come from gamma rays, which passed through his stomach and basically broke down what was in there," Nile said. Once he recovered in the hospital ...

It does this by emitting a high energy electromagnetic wave called a gamma ray. Gamma radiation does not consist of particles but as short wavelength, high energy electromagnetic radiation emitted ...