28 April 2016
Rocket Launch from Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome Successful
...'s objective is the observation of gamma-ray bursts, high-energy cosmic rays and transient phenomena in the Earth's ...radiated by EAS (Extensive Air Showers) of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) in the earth atmosphere as well as for transients’...
08 October 2018
A round-up of news from this years IAC
... partners, NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) agreed to strengthen ties on the development of the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) that is scheduled to blast off in 2021 on a JAXA H-2A rocket; XRISM is being built...
07 June 2019
First-ever image of cool gas disk surrounding Milky Way's black hole
... known about it except that it was there. Its presence was also given away by radiation, but instead of X-rays, the hydrogen atoms in this nebulous ring of material give off radio waves - millimetre wavelength radiation that...
26 July 2019
Three massive black holes caught in the act of merging
...light to be emitted as high-energy radiation such as gamma-rays and x-rays, and the output can be so bright it makes the ... comprehensive new observations with the Hubble Space telescope, Chandra X-ray, and the Very Large Array (VLA) located in central...
February 2016
Nuclear Flashlamps in Space
... anything nearby. The nuclear reactions at the heart of the explosion release a burst of radiation of every kind: gamma rays and X-rays, which are very high energy particles (photons) of light, as well as lots of less energetic light in ultraviolet...
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...
