Researchers pinpoint origin of photons in mysterious gamma-ray bursts
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 07:30
in Astronomy & Space
Scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research and collaborators have used simulations to show that the photons emitted by long gamma-ray bursts, among the most energetic events to take place in the universe, originate in the photosphere—the visible portion of the "relativistic jet" that is emitted by exploding stars.