... so-called VHE (very high energy) gamma rays, pack energies a billion times this, or even more. Astronomers think that VHE gamma rays are produced in the environment of the winds or jets of ...
NASA launched a telescope Wednesday to scout out elusive, super high-energy gamma rays lurking in the universe.
... its mission of exploring the universe in high-energy gamma rays. The spacecraft and its revolutionary instruments passed ... -ray Space Telescope. The new name honors Prof. Enrico Fermi (1901 - 1954), a ...
... the Milky Way.
The study focused on a "long duration" gamma-ray burst known as GRB 080607. This ... a black hole. The initial burst of high-energy gamma rays was followed by a slowly fading afterglow of ...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Astronomers using the U.S. space agency's Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope report high-energy gamma-ray bursts from a neutron star.
... initial emissions ever before seen, a gamma-ray burst recently observed by the Fermi ... structure of this environment, with the low- and high-energy gamma rays "coming from different parts of the jet ...
... have discovered a source of very high energy gamma rays in the region of the distant galaxies 3C 66A and 3C 66B. This new gamma emission, observed from the MAGIC telescope in La Palma ( ...
... Fermi based on their pulsed emissions of high-energy gamma rays. A pulsar is a rapidly spinning neutron ... pulsars slow down as they age and lose energy. But a binary companion star can feed material to ...
... dozens of other galaxies. Now its successor, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, is filling in the picture ... by another instrument sensitive to lower-energy gamma rays. But Fermi's LAT clearly shows ...
... a foamy texture ought to slow down the higher-energy gamma-ray photon relative to the lower ... a new theory of gravity that predicts a strong energy-dependent change in the speed of light," said Peter ...
... Ursa Major.
"These very-high-energy gamma rays probe physical processes in other galaxies ... Digel said. "This is opening up the detailed study of high-energy processes in galaxies very close to home ...
... form of electromagnetic radiation with much higher frequency and energy than visible light, UV light or even X-rays. Having such high energy, gamma rays are hard to collect and focus in the ...
... immediately annihilated by contact with normal matter, and converted to pure energy (gamma rays). There is considerable speculation as to why the observable universe is apparently almost entirely ...
... the MAGIC-I telescope, MAGIC-2 allows stereoscopic observations using these two largest gamma-ray ... can explore sources of very-high energy gamma rays. The astrophysical study of particle acceleration ...
... elementary particles are accelerated to extremely high energy levels in closest proximity to the black hole ( ... acceleration processes are very-high-energy gamma rays, photons a thousand billion times ...
