August 2018
AI offers new approach to space situational awareness
... travelling luggage. The objective is to identify all the possible variations of what a piece of luggage can contain from X-ray images, and then infer when there is something suspicious, such as firearms or contraband, without knowing anything about...
23 February 2016
Researchers probe black-hole mergers with fast-powered winds
... in visible light (optical) up to the gamma-ray energy spectrum for electromagnetic counterparts to the black-hole merger... a viable explanation for the observed luminosity of the gamma-ray burst. The BZ process is a mechanism for the extraction...
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 ...
