Bursting out all over

Joshua S. Bloom and Malvin Ruderman
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Joshua S. Bloom: Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge
Malvin Ruderman: Columbia University

Nature, 1997, vol. 387, issue 6636, 859-860

Abstract: The origin of γ-ray bursts, events which release massive amounts of energy, has been an enduring puzzle in astronomy. As discussed at a meeting last month and papers in this week'sNature, however, evidence from X-ray, optical and radio afterglows continues to stream in and harden two conclusions that most, perhaps all, of these bursts come from the merger of two neutron stars, or a neutron star and a black hole; and that the bursts are occurring at cosmological distances near the edge of the observable Universe.

Date: 1997
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