New study questions decades-long understanding of gamma ray bursts

This page originally appeared on @THEU Adapted from a release by Francis Reddy, senior science writer for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.   On Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022, a pulse of intense gamma-ray radiation swept through our solar system, saturating detectors on numerous spacecraft and sending astronomers across the world scurrying to train their fastest and […]

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Out with a bang: explosive neutron star merger captured for the first time in millimeter light

In a first for radio astronomy, scientists have detected millimeter-wavelength light from a short-duration gamma-ray burst. This artist’s conception shows the merger between a neutron star and another star (seen as a disk, lower left) which caused an explosion resulting in the short-duration gamma-ray burst, GRB 211106A (white jet, middle), and left behind what scientists […]

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