The GRB, called the Brightest Of All Time (or BOAT) may be powered by its strange jet structure, scientists say.
Last October, astronomers witnessed a fleeting, extraordinarily bright gamma ray burst in the distant universe. Since dubbed ...
The gamma-ray burst was 70 times brighter than its previous record holder Back in October 2022, scientists detected a ...
In October 2022, a gamma-ray burst (GRB), called GRB 221009A, was detected and it was so bright that astronomers quickly ...
When scientists detected the gamma-ray burst known as GRB 221009A on October 9, 2022, they dubbed it the BOAT, or the ...
Few things in space are as bright as a supernova, but recently astronomer captured a flash out in the cosmos so great their ...
Earlier this year, astronomers spotted a gamma ray burst that they’ve labeled “the brightest of all time.” Yet a gamma ray burst is only a single exploding star. When far more mass is ...
Last year, astronomers witnessed the brightest explosion on record—a gamma-ray burst known as GRB 221009A. While this was brighter than AT2021lwx, it lasted for just a fraction of the time ...
On June 25, 2016, one of the brightest gamma-ray bursts in the history of observations ... the polarization of the gamma-ray burst's own radiation was measured. An article in Nature was devoted to ...
That isn’t the only way to measure gamma radiation, though, and [Alan] has a great circuit to measure even relatively weak radiation sources. It uses a very small photodiode, and draws so little ...
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