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
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
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
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
With primordial black holes being so scarce, it might seem unlikely that there would be one near enough for us to observe as an individual source of gamma rays.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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