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> Typically, such bright flashes in the sky are gamma-ray bursts—extreme jets of X-ray emissions that spew from the collapse of massive stars. Is that right? S
by denton-scratch 4y ago
> Typically, such bright flashes in the sky are gamma-ray bursts—extreme jets of X-ray emissions that spew from the collapse of massive stars.
Is that right? Surely gamma ray bursts are gamma rays, not X-rays. At least, shouldn't it say "extreme bursts of X-rays and gamma rays [...]"?
- monocasa 4y agoGRBs start, as their name suggest, as a burst of gamma rays, but have long tails of emiting of x-rays and other lower energy photons that we're more likely to notice.