26 May 2016
Are primordial black holes the source of dark matter?
...of cosmic background radiation, but this in the X-ray (the cosmic X-ray background, CXB), helped to corroborate these findings as it... then account for the irregular low-energy X-ray emission? The only culprit responsible for being sufficiently...
30 January 2019
New physics needed to explain early expansion of the Universe
... that a well-known relation between the ultraviolet (UV) and X-ray brightness of quasars could be used to estimate the distance to... additional information from NASA’s Chandra and Swift X-ray observatories, the duo set about calculating the expansion...
22 January 2021
Russia develops instrument to search for precious metals on the Moon and Mars
... emitted from the element when struck by the cosmic-ray, Mitrofanov explained. The device is also able to ...an hour or two in order to collect statistics of counts from gamma rays. “Lunokhod-Geolog”, could be referring to Luna-27. Also called the Luna-...
21 June 2021
Astronomers using GBT discover previously unknown huge galactic structure
... in 2005, when astronomers found an excess of cosmic rays of unknown origin emanating from the disk of our Galaxy...line of sight – a possible home of the mysterious cosmic rays rays discovered earlier. To rule out the possibility that this feature ...
18 August 2021
New study sheds light on Solar System heavy metal problem
...along the way. Interest in aluminum-26, which emits a gamma ray when it decays, was piqued back in the 70s when ... Ophiuchus stellar nursery and the tell-tale production of gamma-rays from aluminum-26 produced in the nearest cluster of young stars...
08 April 2020
First-ever photo proof of powerful jet emerging from colliding galaxies
... 2020. The paper is titled "TXS 2116-077: A gamma-ray emitting relativistic jet hosted in a galaxy merger." In addition to Paliya... form of radiation, such as intense radio waves, X-rays, and gamma-rays. "Jets are the best accelerators in the universe ...
