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This particular gamma-ray burst’s redshift of 8.2 corresponds to such a large distance that it indicates the presence of stars a mere 630 million years after the Big Bang—when the universe was just 5 percent of its current...
...very excited about it,” Grindlay said. “We didn’t doubt gamma-ray bursts could be at such an early time in the universe, but this confirms...
Various groups are proposing NASA missions that would further investigate such phenomena, including Harvard’s Energetic X-ray Imaging Survey Telescope (EXIST) and Penn State’s Joint Astrophysics and Nascent Universe Satellite (JANUS...
...autonomous space-based telescope Swift, which detected the gamma-ray burst, was launched in 2004 in order to help scientists further the understand of these objects...
Research into gamma-ray bursts fosters the understanding of the early universe according to Astronomy Professor Johnathan E. Grindlay...