September 2017
Binary stars and their extraordinary lives
...the amalgamation produces radiation that we observe in the optical and infrared as a bright kilonova transient and a short gamma-ray burst at higher energy. Models of binary stars will explain how physics works in the most extreme environments we can...
24 February 2017
Researchers find a new type of X-ray transient
... is where it originated from. The team put forward that CDF-S XT1 could be an “orphan” X-ray afterglow from an off-axis short-duration Gamma-ray Burst (GRB), or a highly beamed Tidal Disruption Event (TDE). TDE’s occur when when a star...
July 2017
Hunting for neutrinos in the ice of Antarctica
...have been many theories linking them to black holes or gamma ray bursts, but no convincing evidence has yet been found to ... more reliable; however, it is limited to binary short-burst messages, essentially text messages, which restricts the amount of...
08 March 2021
New study determines best place and time to live in the Milky Way
...only take a nearby high-energy transient such as a supernova or gamma-ray burst (GRB) to destroy our atmosphere, which in turn would allow ...worlds, Spinelli and colleagues lay the blame firmly on gamma-ray bursts for having a hand in wiping out life. ...
29 February 2016
Missing matter still lost, as Fast Radio Burst not quite what it seems say researchers
...by the team as being largely consistent with a short gamma-ray burst radio afterglow, and that its existence and timescale was ...thus negating the claim of a cosmological origin for the burst. This would also have repercussions for their measurement of...
March 2016
Gravitational waves provide new window on the universe
... of two neutron stars, or a neutron with a black hole. With it, we might be able to observe gamma ray light emitted from a short gamma ray burst. If so, it will be the first detection between gravitational waves and its coincident electromagnetic...
