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A new view of the gamma-ray gap: 14 years of Fermi data reveal around 450 sources in a largely unexplored energy range
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- Fourteen years of Fermi telescope data reveal around 450 gamma-ray sources in a largely unexplored energy range.
- The finding roughly doubles the number of known objects in this energy range.
- About 15% of the newly found sources are still unidentified.
Why it matters
Gamma rays in this range come from extreme environments such as supermassive black holes and exploding stars, so the larger catalogue gives science readers a much bigger sample of these objects to study.
Who’s affected
- astronomers and astrophysicists
- #gamma-ray astronomy
- #fermi
- #astrophysics
- #gamma-ray sources
- #nasa
The universe is filled with light at many different energies. Some of it is invisible to our eyes, including extremely energetic gamma rays, which can only be produced in the most extreme environments in our universe, for example supermassive black holes, exploding stars or…
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Space News - Space, Astronomy, Space Exploration
A new view of the gamma-ray gap: 14 years of Fermi data reveal around 450 sources in a largely unexplored energy range
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Nanowerk Nanotechnology and Emerging Technologies News
NASA telescope reveals 450 gamma-ray sources in unexplored energy range