View a video of gamma ray bursts from Seeing in the Dark Gamma rays belong to the same family as light, x-rays, and the radio waves that travel between a radio station and your car radio.

On March 15, 2024, a space-based observatory detected bursts of low-energy X-rays from deep in the ancient universe, ...

Here's a tour that begins with radio waves and takes you through microwaves, infrared radiation, light, ultraviolet radiation, and X-rays. The tour ends with gamma rays, the potentially deadly ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the greater mysteries facing astronomers today, rivaled only by gravitational waves (GWs) and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Originally discovered in 2007 by American ...

Astronomers are baffled by EP240408a, a rare cosmic explosion that defies explanation, sparking theories of a black hole and ...

Electromagnetic radiation is the general term for the more familiar light and radio waves, but also includes gamma rays, x rays, ultraviolet rays, and infrared. All of these forms of electromagnetic ...

Furthermore, the study found a smooth decrease of variability time-scale from radio waves to gamma rays. It turned out that during the low state, the variability time-scale of about 0.4–0.5 ...

Radio waves have the longest wavelengths and gamma rays have the shortest wavelengths. Radio waves have the longest wavelengths of all EM waves. Radio waves have wavelengths ranging from thousands ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. 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 ...

For example, radio waves are transmitted by walls - this ... The atmosphere absorbs X-rays and gamma rays from space which can cause harm to the human body.

Optics and photonics covers the entire electromagnetic spectrum from high-energy gamma rays and X-rays ... to long-wavelength microwave and radio waves. A distinctive multivalent-effect ...