Tag: gamma ray burst

• The lowdown on the highest energy light

  [ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Incredible hulking facts about gamma rays From lightning to the death of electrons, the highest-energy form of light is everywhere For Symmetry Magazine: Gamma rays are the most energetic…

  Matthew R. Francis

  July 13, 2016

  Symmetry Magazine

  gamma ray astronomy, gamma ray burst, gamma rays, nuclear physics, particle physics

• The week in review (August 18-24)

  I’ve been remiss in blogging at Bowler Hat Science, largely because…well, I’ve been writing too much elsewhere. So, I’m going to try something different: instead of blogging each new article I write in a separate entry, I’ll write a single post summarizing everything in one go. How I learned to stop worrying and love tolerate…

  Matthew R. Francis

  August 24, 2013

  Ars Technica, Galileo’s Pendulum, Metablog, Nautilus, Slate, Writing for Other Sites

  black holes, cosmology, gamma ray burst, general relativity, multiverse, quasiparticles, warp drive

• Weird supernova marks the spot of a violent outburst…and black hole

  Any core-collapse supernova—the explosion of a massive star—is by nature powerful, destructive, and rare. The really dramatic supernovas have the extra effect of exploding in a non-spherical way, beaming a lot of their matter and energy along an axis. When Earth is aligned with those beams, we see the supernova as a gamma ray burst…

  Matthew R. Francis

  February 16, 2013

  Ars Technica, Writing for Other Sites

  black holes, gamma ray burst, supernovas