How to Use gamma-ray burst in a Sentence

gamma-ray burst

noun

• 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
• In a gamma-ray burst, however, the corpse stays active.
  — Anna Y. Q. Ho, Scientific American, 26 Nov. 2020
• In each instance, the gamma-ray burst does not come from the explosion itself.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Wired, 18 July 2021
• 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
• However, the researchers knew the February flare was too bright to have been a gamma-ray burst.
  — Jacquelyne Germain, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2022
• 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
• Despite that, this gamma-ray burst poses no danger to us.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2022
• The Hubble Space Telescope captured the infrared afterglow of the very bright gamma-ray burst.
  — Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2023
• 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
• On the other hand, short gamma-ray bursts have pulses shorter than two seconds.
  — Amy Lien, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2024
• 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
• Over the years, numerous astronomers have suggested the culprit might have been a gamma-ray burst (GRB).
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2021
• Another option is that the long gamma-ray bursts don’t come from feasting newborn black holes at all.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
• The link between this observation and the gamma-ray burst event wasn’t evident at first.
  — Dhananjay Khadilkar, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2023
• 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
• But although lethal, nearby gamma-ray bursts are also very rare.
  — Seth Shostak, Quartz, 26 Sep. 2019
• The team concluded that an intermediate-mass black hole sat between us and the gamma-ray burst.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Mar. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This latest gamma-ray burst falls into the long category.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Up in the turret, Phaedra slips off her hood and stares at her before unleashing the kind of gamma-ray burst usually unheard of outside of collapsing stars and the most contentious of middle-school sleepovers.
  — Molly Fitzpatrick, Vulture, 19 Jan. 2024
• Those gamma-ray bursts lasting less than two seconds (about 30 percent) are deemed short bursts, usually emitting from regions with very little star formation.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 July 2024

Last Updated: 20 Mar 2025