July 2017
Hunting for neutrinos in the ice of Antarctica
...neutrinos are linked to ultra-high energy cosmic rays and these rays are the most energetically charged particles known in ...There have been many theories linking them to black holes or gamma ray bursts, but no convincing evidence has yet been found to...
08 February 2016
Japan’s Astro-H mission due to launch on February 12, 2016
... a thermometer.The heat is directly proportional to the X-ray’s energy and it can reveal much about the physical properties...X-ray Imager (HXI) that performs sensitive imaging spectroscopy in the 5- 80 keV band and the non-imaging Soft Gamma-ray ...
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...
August 2018
Flying to the stars
... be very low, as only a fraction of the energy is released via pions. The majority is released via neutrinos and gamma rays that cannot be channelled and therefore do not generate thrust. The second antimatter propulsion concept is based on heating...
10 April 2020
A recently discovered stellar black hole could be the most massive yet, say astronomers
... J1348−630 were also picked up by other telescopes able to detect high energy radiation, including ESA's INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory, NASA’s Swift observatory and their Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) – another...
08 March 2021
New study determines best place and time to live in the Milky Way
... it took to get established in the first place. It would 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 Earth’s surface to be flooded with powerful radiation...
