July 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
... an asteroid sample to Earth in 2023. In 2020, an international team of researchers using data from Arecibo Observatory and the Fermi Space Telescope announced in the journal Nature Astronomy the discovery of what they called a “gamma-ray heartbeat...
23 February 2016
Researchers probe black-hole mergers with fast-powered winds
... for electromagnetic counterparts to the black-hole merger. Indeed, just 0.4s after GW 150914 was detected, observations with Fermi’s Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) revealed the presence of a weak short-duration gamma-ray burst (GRB...
11 July 2016
Short gamma-ray burst is from a binary neutron star coalescing into a black hole say researchers
... Kerr-Newman black hole identified by Enderli and team is linked to a gamma-ray burst first found by the Fermi/GBM instrument in 2009, known as GRB 090510. By constructing theoretical models using the fireshell scenario, coupled with...
25 November 2016
New search shows no link between gravitational waves and gamma-ray bursts
... behind the monumental GW discovery have presented results of a search for GWs associated with GRBs detected by the Fermi and Swift gamma-ray satellites, that shows no connection between the two could be found. The search...
18 January 2017
The unusual tails of a pulsar give a clue as to what type of pulse it generates
... spectrum have suggested that the particles are accelerated to nearly the speed of light through a process called Fermi acceleration that takes place at the intersection of a pulsar wind and the interstellar material. Although the explanation...
12 January 2018
Evidence in DES map of small galaxies being eaten by the Milky Way
... of the universe," said Dark Energy Survey Data Management Project Scientist Brian Yanny of the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. "With the DES data now available as a 'digital sky,' accessible to all, my hope is that...
