Tag: gamma-ray bursts
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Born In Brightness, Leading To Darkness: A Window Into Black Hole Births
Introduction: From Blinding Light to Invisible Gravity The birth of a black hole is not a silent event. In the cosmos, some of the most dramatic beginnings begin with a blaze of brightness that outshines entire galaxies for moments seconds and minutes. In Kyoto, Japan, researchers are peeling back the layers of this paradox: how…
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Born In Brightness, Leading To Darkness: Black Hole Births Revealed In Kyoto
Introduction: Bright Beginnings, Dark Destinies For generations, black holes have stood as symbols of cosmic mystery: invisible, powerful, and almost impossibly solitary. Yet recent research out of Kyoto challenges the easy dichotomy of darkness versus light by tracing a dramatic sequence that begins with brilliance and ends in a gravitational sinkhole. The research, centered on…
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Winners of the 2026 RAS Awards Revealed: Groundbreaking Pulsar Discoveries and Magnetic Field Geophysics Honored
Celebrating Pioneering Minds: 2026 RAS Award Winners The Royal Astronomical Society has announced the winners of its prestigious 2026 prizes, recognizing two researchers whose work spans the most extreme corners of the cosmos and the dynamic geophysics of our own planet. One recipient is famed for transformative discoveries in millisecond pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, and supernovae.…
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Groundbreaking Winners Announced for the 2026 Royal Astronomical Society Awards
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) has revealed its winners for the 2026 awards, celebrating outstanding achievements across astronomy, astrophysics, and related disciplines. This year’s recipients highlight the breadth and depth of modern space science, from the tiniest neutron stars to the dynamic field of geophysics. Here, we profile the two laureates whose work has earned…
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Winners of the 2026 RAS Awards Announced: Pioneering Pulsars, Gamma-Ray Bursts, and Magnetic Field Mastery
Two Visionaries Honored by the Royal Astronomical Society The Royal Astronomical Society has announced the winners of its prestigious 2026 awards, Celebrating two researchers whose work spans the cosmic extremes from the fastest spinning stars to the planet’s subtle magnetic heartbeat. The prizes recognize a career of groundbreaking discoveries in high-energy astrophysics and a mathematically…
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Strange 7-Hour Gamma-Ray Burst Shocks Space Scientists
Unusual Timing: A Gamma-Ray Burst Unlike Any Other On July 2, 2025, astronomers witnessed a gamma-ray burst (GRB) with an astonishing twist: it persisted for about seven hours, far longer than typical GRBs which last from milliseconds to a few minutes. Detected by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and corroborated by other observatories, the event…
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Australian Nanosatellite SpIRIT Snaps Space Selfie, Sets Stage for GRB Hunt
Australia’s SpIRIT Takes a Space Selfie as it Prepares to Track Gamma-Ray Bursts In a milestone that mirrors the playful spirit of space exploration, Australia’s SpIRIT nanosatellite has taken its first so-called ‘selfie’ from orbit. The image, captured during in-orbit commissioning, marks the completion of critical testing and paves the way for the mission’s core…
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Australian nanosatellite SpIRIT snaps first selfie in space before gamma-ray burst hunt
SpIRIT makes its space selfie a milestone for Australian space tech Australia’s Space Industry Responsive Intelligent Thermal nanosatellite, or SpIRIT, has achieved a milestone—its first “selfie” in orbit. This moment marks the completion of commissioning and the transition from hardware testing to scientific operations, a crucial step for a mission designed to showcase Australian spacecraft…
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SpIRIT Nanosatellite Selfie in Space and Gamma-Ray Burst Mission
Australia’s SpIRIT Nanosatellite Takes a Milestone Selfie in Orbit The Australian Space Agency’s first funded space telescope, SpIRIT (Space Industry Responsive Intelligent Thermal nanosatellite), has delivered a celebratory milestone: its first in-space selfie. Launched in December 2023 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, SpIRIT has completed commissioning and is poised to begin its core science mission,…
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Setting Bounds On SETI: A Hybrid Spatial-Temporal Signaling Strategy
A Hybrid Spatial-Temporal Framework for SETI The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) faces a data-scale problem: there are countless places to listen, countless frequencies to sweep, and timing windows that may pass undetected. Traditional anchors—like listening near a presumed natural beacon or picking a single historical event as a cue—have limitations. A new preprint from…