In The News: Department of Physics and Astronomy

Orissa Diary

A group of astronomers have detected a very short, powerful burst of high-energy radiation that lasted for about a second and had been racing toward Earth for nearly half the present age of the universe.

NewsBeezer

On August 26, 2020, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope discovered a pulse of high-energy radiation that was hurtling towards Earth at nearly half the current age of the universe.

TVN

It lasted only a second and was the shortest gamma radiation burst (GRB), ever caused by the death a large star.

Phys.org

Lasting only about a second, it turned out to be one for the record books—the shortest gamma-ray burst (GRB) caused by the death of a massive star ever seen.

Mirage.News

From insulator to metal and back again - a new transition phenomenon reported by Rochester and Las Vegas researchers ‘will find a place in physics textbooks.’

Eos

Some exoplanets don’t fit into the major categories. And like many oddballs, they can be more interesting than the conformists.

NASA

On Aug. 26, 2020, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected a pulse of high-energy radiation that had been racing toward Earth for nearly half the present age of the universe. Lasting only about a second, it turned out to be one for the record books – the shortest gamma-ray burst (GRB) caused by the death of a massive star ever seen.

Physics Today

A new numerical study suggests that the answer depends upon how much water is in Earth’s mantle.

Zee News

Scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) using computer simulations revealed that the supermassive black holes may also generate Tsunami-like structures in the universe.

KNPR News

Native students at Nevada’s two land-grant universities feel they aren’t getting the support they need. But work is underway to change that.

Mashable India

Are you aware that even space can have tsunamis? It has recently come to light that scientists have discovered tsunamis forming outside of Earth that gets triggered by black holes.

Nature World News

Computer simulations from a NASA-funded study suggests that supermassive black holes may generate tsunamis in space from escaping gas.