Mysterious bursts of radio waves detected on Earth may be coming from magnetars, say the scientists who first detected them. The international team of astronomers behind the discovery, writing in the journal Science, explain that the characteristics of the bursts indicate they come from sources billions of light years distant. “A single burst of radio […]
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New explanation for gamma ray bursts
Mathematicians at the University of Leeds have proposed a radical explanation for the bright flashes in the universe that are one of the biggest mysteries in astronomy today. The flashes, known as gamma ray bursts, are beams of high energy radiation produced by jets of plasma from massive dying stars. The orthodox model for this […]