gamma rays
Britishplural noun
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In 2024, researchers led by Li Shang at Anhui University in Hefei, China, suggested that Fermi's Large Area Telescope may have detected gamma rays from one of these events years after the explosion occurred.
From Science Daily • May 27, 2026
In these extreme environments, intense heat produces gamma rays that strip neutrons and other particles from existing heavy nuclei.
From Science Daily • Apr. 14, 2026
In some models, when two of these particles meet, they annihilate and produce high-energy radiation such as gamma rays.
From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2026
Scientists combined data from space-based and ground-based observatories, collecting gamma rays, X-rays, infrared light, and radio signals.
From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026
Some scientists have suggested that it was caused by a piece of hurtling antimatter, annihilated on contact with the ordinary matter of the Earth, disappearing in a flash of gamma rays.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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