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Tag: gamma ray burst
Gold doesn’t fall out of the sky – but it’s created in the heavens
Research based on recent observations of a nearby gamma-ray burst, GRB 130603B, help explain how gold, silver and other heavy ...
Light from huge explosion 12 billion years ago reaches Earth
Intense light from a huge explosion (a gamma ray burst) that took place shortly after the birth of the Universe ...
In a Rainbow Universe, time may have no beginning
It's one of the most alluring but hard to prove (and unlikely) theories: a Rainbow Universe. A Universe in which ...
Armada of instruments witness the brightest cosmic event of the century: the birth of a black hole
An artist’s conception of the processes by which a star collapses and becomes a black hole, releasing high-energy gamma rays ...
Earth was hit by a massive gamma-ray burst in the 8th century
The most powerful explosion in the Universe - a gamma-ray burst- might have hit Earth during the middle ages. Luckily ...
Most powerful stars are actually vampire binary systems. The weaker feeds on the stronger
A new research has found that the massively powerful O-type stars, which can be up to 90 times more powerful ...
Astronomers paint a clearer picture of how supernovae are born
Supernovae are one of the most energetic and brightest events in the cosmos, often so powerful they outshine whole galaxies. ...
One third of the discovered gamma rays so far have unknown sources
Set it went into operation, Fermi's Large Area Telescope has detected 1873 gamma rays out in space, of which only two ...
Gamma-ray bursts might cause mass extinction on Earth
Most of us tend to believe the Earth is a safe heaven, with little regard to outerwordly consequences. The truth ...
Intense Gamma Ray blast indeed traced back to supermassive black hole
We previously reported about an incredible gamma ray burst triggered by a black hole, so powerful that nothing like this ...
Dormant Supermassive black hole arises stronger than ever
It's still unclear if it was all about a stellar meal or if it was simply gas, or some other ...
Black hole in Dragon’s belly swallows star and everything goes nutty from here
The Draco constellation (which is Latin for Dragon) is located at about 3.8 billion light years from Earth; just ...