NASA’s Fermi Space Telescope Captures Cosmic Fireworks in Dynamic Gamma-Ray Sky
Cosmic fireworks, invisible to our eyes, fill the night sky. We can get a glimpse of this elusive light show thanks to the Large Area…
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope News
Read news about the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, formerly called the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST). It is a space observatory that provides astronomers with a superior tool to study how black holes, notorious for pulling matter in, can accelerate jets of gas outward at fantastic speeds.
Strange Long-Lasting Pulse of High-Energy Radiation Swept Over Earth
NASA’s Swift and Fermi Missions Detect Exceptional Cosmic Blast An unusually bright and long-lasting pulse of high-energy radiation swept over Earth Sunday, October 9, captivating…
Are There Anti-Stars (Made of Antimatter) Around Us?
Are there anti-stars around us? Answer from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. What if some of the antimatter that was thought to have disappeared was…
The Hunt for the Gravitational Wave Background: NASA’s FERMI Searches for Ripples in Spacetime
NASA’s FERMI Satellite Hunts for Extremely Long-wavelength Gravitational-Wave Signals Coalescing supermassive black holes in the centers of merging galaxies fill the universe with low-frequency gravitational…
NASA’s Fermi Space Telescope Hunts for Gravitational Waves From Monster Black Holes
Our universe is a chaotic sea of ripples in space-time called gravitational waves. Astronomers think waves from orbiting pairs of supermassive black holes in distant…
Gigantic Bubbles at Center of Milky Way Caused by Powerful Jet of Energy From Supermassive Black Hole
In 2020, the X-ray telescope eRosita took images of two enormous bubbles extending far above and below the center of our galaxy. Since then, astronomers…
Mysterious Cosmic “Spider” Found To Be Source of Powerful Gamma-Rays
Investigated by the SOAR Telescope operated by NOIRLab, the binary system is the first to be found at the penultimate stage of its evolution. Using…
Black Holes Have Tantrums, and Scientists Have Finally Captured the Gamma Rays From Such Ultra-Fast Outflows
Findings could advance understanding of ultra-fast outflows’ role in evolution of galaxies. When supermassive black holes have tantrums, galaxies sit up and take notice. A…
Astronomers Discover Surprising Cause of a “Fizzled” Gamma-Ray Burst
Astronomers Uncover Briefest Supernova-Powered Gamma-Ray Burst Gemini North identifies collapsing star as the surprising cause of a “fizzled” gamma-ray burst. Astronomers have discovered the shortest-ever…
NASA’s Fermi Spots a Weird Pulse of High-Energy Radiation Racing Toward Earth
On August 26, 2020, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected a pulse of high-energy radiation that had been racing toward Earth for nearly half the…
World’s Most Powerful Telescopes Unite in Unprecedented Observations of Famous Black Hole
Scientists have coordinated observations of many of the world’s most powerful telescopes of the supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87. In April 2019, the…
Dark Matter Is the Most Likely Source of Excess of Gamma Rays From Galactic Center of the Milky Way
In the recent past, space missions dedicated to the study of astrophysical signals in the high-energy spectrum revealed a series of enigmatic excesses not predicted…
NASA Spacecraft Unmask High-Energy Blast That Swept Through the Solar System – Magnetar Eruption in Nearby Galaxy
On April 15, 2020, a brief burst of high-energy light swept through the solar system, triggering instruments on several NASA and European spacecraft. Now, multiple…
Ghostly Particle Traced Back to a Shredded Star, Revealing a Gigantic Cosmic Particle Accelerator
From a black hole to the South Pole: Scientists identify first neutrino from a tidal disruption event. Tracing back a ghostly particle to a shredded…
Discovery of Potential Cosmic-Ray Accelerator in the Galaxy Opens Window in Search for the “PeVatron”
The Tibet ASgamma experiment, a China-Japan joint research project, has discovered gamma rays beyond 100 TeV (tera electron volts) from G106.3+2.7, a supernova remnant (SNR)…
True Identity of Mysterious High-Energy Gamma-Ray Source Revealed
An international research team including members from The University of Manchester has shown that a rapidly rotating neutron star is at the core of a…
A Star Dying Soon After the Beginning of the Universe Could Be Disrupting Mobile Phone Reception Today
Rare Star’s Giant Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 204015A Captured Close to Our Home Galaxy Earth gets blasted by mild short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) most days. But…
Mysterious, Repeating Radio Burst Identified in Our Own Galaxy for the First Time
NASA Missions Help Pinpoint the Source of a Unique X-ray, Radio Burst This is the first time one of these mysterious, repeating radio bursts has…
