gamma rays
Britishplural noun
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Electrons and positrons can collide and transform into gamma-ray photons, while gamma rays themselves can collide and create new particles.
From Science Daily ● May 27, 2026
"Observing gamma rays from supernovae will give us a new way to explore their inner workings."
From Science Daily ● May 27, 2026
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
The team also tested whether the proposed blazar population would produce too many gamma rays compared with the known extragalactic gamma ray background measured by Fermi.
From Science Daily ● May 24, 2026
Ice cubes don’t wipe out civilizations with bursts of gamma rays, though following the then-accepted rules of physics led inexorably to that conclusion.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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