Scientists have coordinated observations of many of the world’s most powerful telescopes of the supermassive…
Browsing: Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
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.
New research confirms that excess gamma rays from the Galactic center may originate from dark…
A brief gamma-ray burst detected on April 15, 2020, has been traced to a magnetar…
From a black hole to the South Pole: Scientists identify first neutrino from a tidal…
G106.3+2.7 may be the first confirmed PeVatron, emitting 100+ TeV gamma rays linked to cosmic-ray…
A rapidly rotating neutron star, PSR J2039−5617, was found destroying its companion star thanks to…
Rare Star’s Giant Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 204015A Captured Close to Our Home Galaxy Earth gets…
NASA Missions Help Pinpoint the Source of a Unique X-ray, Radio Burst This is the…
Super Heavyweight and Flyweight in a Cosmic Dance Volunteer distributed computing project Einstein@Home discovers neutron…
Very long baseline array reveals object’s history. In this image, made with the National Science…
Not so long ago, astronomers mapped a galaxy far, far away using radio waves and…
Over one hundred years ago, on May 29, 1919, astronomers observed a total solar eclipse…
Exhaustive emissions modeling by global physicists narrows down particle candidates. The detection more than a…
Cosmic gas cloud blinks in sync with circling black hole. Scientists have detected a mysterious…
Excess neutrinos and missing gamma rays? Coronae of supermassive black holes may be the hidden…
About 3.5 million years ago, the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky…
Eighty-five percent of the universe is composed of dark matter, but we don’t know what,…
Matching up maps of matter and light from the Dark Energy Survey and Fermi Gamma-ray…