How to Use gamma-ray burst in a Sentence
gamma-ray burst
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The gamma-ray burst — witnessed as a long, bright pulse of light — was the birth cry of a black hole.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 22 Oct. 2022
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In a gamma-ray burst, however, the corpse stays active.
—Anna Y. Q. Ho, Scientific American, 26 Nov. 2020
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In each instance, the gamma-ray burst does not come from the explosion itself.
—Jonathan O'Callaghan, Wired, 18 July 2021
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The gamma-ray burst was slightly offset from the center of the black hole, so its light took two paths, one slightly longer than the other.
—Quanta Magazine, 29 Mar. 2021
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However, the researchers knew the February flare was too bright to have been a gamma-ray burst.
—Jacquelyne Germain, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2022
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Astronomers found a fireball from a gamma-ray burst in 2013, but there was no proof that neutron stars were involved.
—Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
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Despite that, this gamma-ray burst poses no danger to us.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2022
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The Hubble Space Telescope captured the infrared afterglow of the very bright gamma-ray burst.
—Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2023
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Unfortunately, the chances of seeing a gamma-ray burst go off so close by aren’t very high.
—Erika K. Carlson, Discover Magazine, 14 Jan. 2020
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Almost every day, without warning, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) wash over Earth from somewhere in the vast depths of the cosmos.
—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2019
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Over the years, numerous astronomers have suggested the culprit might have been a gamma-ray burst (GRB).
—Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2021
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The link between this observation and the gamma-ray burst event wasn’t evident at first.
—Dhananjay Khadilkar, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2023
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In just a few seconds, a gamma-ray burst blasts out the same amount of energy that the Sun will radiate throughout its entire life.
—Eleonora Troja, The Conversation, 21 Dec. 2022
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But although lethal, nearby gamma-ray bursts are also very rare.
—Seth Shostak, Quartz, 26 Sep. 2019
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The team concluded that an intermediate-mass black hole sat between us and the gamma-ray burst.
—Quanta Magazine, 29 Mar. 2021
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Astronomers around the world then got to work, training other telescopes on the part of the sky the gamma-ray burst had come from and poring through data that had already been collected.
—The Economist, 16 Oct. 2017
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Again, the rate at which this would occur is sufficiently low that very few planets would ever be sterilized by a gamma-ray burst.
—Discover Magazine, 17 July 2017
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As researchers explain in a new paper published in the journal Science, the typical distance of a gamma-ray burst from Earth is around 20 billion light-years.
—Mike Wehner, BGR, 4 June 2021
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Space telescopes observed a short gamma-ray burst, a powerful beam of radiation, coming from about the same part of the sky about two seconds later.
—Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2017
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On average, there is thought to be one observable gamma-ray burst in the visible universe every day.
—Jonathan O'Callaghan, Wired, 18 July 2021
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This latest gamma-ray burst falls into the long category.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2022
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The event, a gamma-ray burst, was triggered by the merger of two neutron stars, forming a single mass of neutrons that was large enough to collapse into a black hole shortly afterwards.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2018
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In mid-August, these telescopes were all abruptly aimed toward the origin of a gamma-ray burst, an explosion predicted to come from the impact of two neutron stars.
—Author: Sarah Kaplan, Ben Guarino, Alaska Dispatch News, 28 Sep. 2017
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The new results suggest that neutron-star mergers are important sources of short-duration gamma-ray bursts, study team members said.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 5 Sep. 2018
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At the time, scientists said the uniquely bright and energetic gamma-ray burst can will help them to learn more about elements formed and ejected during a massive star collapse.
—Ariana Garcia, Chron, 23 Dec. 2022
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Meanwhile, your other instrument, a dozen detectors working in tandem, senses the whole sky (except for where Earth blocks the view) on the hunt for distant flashes called gamma-ray bursts (GRBs).
—Liz Kruesi, National Geographic, 11 June 2019
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Astronomers generally think that one type of gamma-ray burst, called long-duration gamma-ray bursts, come from very massive, fast-spinning stars.
—Erika K. Carlson, Discover Magazine, 14 Jan. 2020
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Meanwhile, astronomers spied a bright gamma-ray burst that resulted from a rare cosmic explosion, releasing a shower of gold and platinum in space.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Dec. 2022
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The rumors hinted that in addition to the gravitational-wave signal, astronomers had observed a short gamma-ray burst and something that looked a lot like a kilonova.
—Sanjana Curtis, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2022
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Some scientists have suggested that the Ordovician-Silurian extinctions some 450 million years ago may have been the result of a nearby gamma-ray burst.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2022
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