Associate Professor in High Energy Astrophyics, University of Adelaide
Research activities and interests:
- Very high energy ground-based gamma-ray astronomy
- Millimetre/Sub-millimetre radio astronomy
- Supernova remnants
- Pulsars and their nebulae
- Massive star clusters
- Cosmic-rays and their origin
A collapsing star in a distant galaxy fired out some of the most energetic gamma rays ever seen
Nov 24, 2019 22:17 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
The brightest fireworks in the universe are called gamma-ray bursts and are created by the death throes of certain kinds of stars. These intense blasts release as much energy in one second as the Sun will over its whole...
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