19 April 2016
Gravitational waves poised to be pinpointed by gamma ray burst
...Black holes are expected to merge without significant X-ray or gamma-ray emission because gas orbiting the system is needed ... incredible synergy between the two observations, with gamma rays revealing details about the source's energetics and local ...
11 May 2018
Revolutionary X-Ray navigation system to be used on CubeSat mission
... SEXTANT, for short, works in a similar principle to how GPS works for people on Earth, but instead it uses X-rays from millisecond pulsars to accurately determine the location of an object moving at thousands of kilometres per hour in space. Pulsars...
24 February 2017
Researchers find a new type of X-ray transient
...are still a number of emerging classes of exotic X-ray transients whose nature and driving mechanisms remain unclear or ...type of transient using an image taken by the Chandra X-ray Observatory satellite, which allows astronomers to ‘see through’ ...
25 November 2016
New search shows no link between gravitational waves and gamma-ray bursts
...of developing the emerging field of gravitational wave science. Gamma ray bursts (GRBs), which come in two flavours – long and...looking for gravitational wave signals associated with 41 gamma-ray bursts during a period between September 2015 and ...
12 August 2016
Astronomers spot two merging galaxy clusters bridged by X-rays
Astronomers in the Netherlands have spotted a new example of an early phase galaxy cluster merger, that is linked by a bridge of X-rays. Less than a handful of early phase cluster mergers have been observed, making this a rare opportunity to witness...
11 July 2016
Short gamma-ray burst is from a binary neutron star coalescing into a black hole say researchers
... black hole identified by Enderli and team is linked to a gamma-ray burst first found by the Fermi/GBM instrument in 2009, known ... hole, by confirming that GRB 090510 is a short gamma-ray burst, originating in a binary neutron star merger and not the...
