Artist’s impression of a powerful gamma-ray burst. Credit: NASA Astronomers discover the most energetic gamma-ray burst ever witnessed. Gamma-ray bursts are the most energetic phenomenon…
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After 20 years of searching, scientists have finally observed the gargantuan light energy — tera-electron volts — that validates their theories about Inverse Compton emission…
Ground-based facilities have detected radiation up to a trillion times the energy of visible light from a cosmic explosion called a gamma-ray burst (GRB). This…
A black widow pulsar and its small stellar companion, viewed within their orbital plane. Powerful radiation and the pulsar’s “wind” – an outflow of high-energy…
CTB 1, seen here in a deep exposure that highlights visible light from hydrogen gas, is the expanding wreckage of a massive star that exploded…