The 25 ground-based and orbiting telescopes that comprise the EHT saw the outburst as high-energy light called gamma rays. Not only was this the first time M87* had flared since 2010, but the ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- An international team of astronomers has observed extremely rapid bursts of high-energy gamma rays from a distant galaxy, an observation that is challenging how astronomers ...
Using NASA's Fermi space telescope, Italian astronomers have observed a radio source known as 3C 216. As a result, they ...
In 2019, the world was mesmerized by the first-ever image of a black hole, courtesy of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). The ...
M87, a prominent galaxy in the Virgo cluster, gained fame after the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) revealed the first image of ...
An international research team has now observed a teraelectronvolt gamma-ray flare seven orders of magnitude ... The first-ever photo of a black hole rocked the world in 2019, when the Event ...
Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A massive burst of gamma rays produced by the explosion of a star almost two billion light-years away was so powerful that it ...
The authors report the first observation of a high-energy gamma-ray flare in over a decade from ... together with the world's three largest Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope arrays (H.E.S.S ...
and these results are a striking example of that. "Fermi-LAT has revealed a notable increase in flux in the same period as the other observatories, helping to identify the region of gamma-ray ...