Blazars are among the largest and most energetic objects in the universe. Jets of matter ("jets") shoot from the cores of these active galaxies shoot, which are accompanied by huge bursts of gamma ...
Highly detailed radio-telescope images have pinpointed the locations where a stellar explosion called a nova emitted gamma rays, the most energetic form of electromagnetic waves. The discovery ...
March 28, 2023, Mountain View, CA – A team of astronomers from the SETI Institute, Oxford University, and other institutions worked together to study the earliest stages of the Universe’s most ...
A new class of pulsars detected by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is solving the mystery of previously unidentified gamma-ray sources and helping scientists understand the mechanisms behind ...
Where in powerful jets of distant active galaxies — the mightiest and most energetic objects known — are the violent outbursts of high energy gamma-ray emission produced? Very close to the central ...