gamma rays
Britishplural noun
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These bursts typically occur when a massive star collapses into a black hole, producing a brief and intense flash of high-energy gamma rays.
From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026
However, it could become detectable at the highest photon energies, specifically in very-high-energy gamma rays.
From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2026
Next-generation observatories such as the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory are being designed to detect very-high-energy gamma rays with far greater sensitivity.
From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2026
The timing was especially telling: the new outflows appeared in the images while NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was also detecting high-energy gamma rays, directly connecting the shock-powered radiation to those colliding streams.
From Science Daily • Dec. 31, 2025
This involved bombarding samples with neutrons in a small nuclear reactor and carefully counting the gamma rays that were emitted; it was extremely finicky work.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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