For decades it was baffling. Out of the still night sky, astronomers peering through their telescopes would occasionally glimpse quick bursts of high-energy light popping off like flashbulbs at the far side of the universe. These bursts seemed impossibly powerful: to appear so bright from so very far away, they must vastly outshine entire galaxies [...]
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Short Gamma-ray Bursts
Posted in Astronomy & Cosmology, tagged GRB on October 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
