Surprise Kilonova Explosion Upends our Understanding of Gamma-ray Bursts
Two Maunakea Observatories Find the Closest Black Hole to Earth
November 14, 2022
Colliding Quasars Set to Trigger Energetic Star Formation
April 6, 2023
This artist's impression shows a kilonova produced by two colliding neutron stars. While studying the aftermath of a long gamma-ray burst (GRB), two independent teams of astronomers using a host of telescopes in space and on Earth, including the Gemini North telescope on Hawai‘i and the Gemini South telescope in Chile, have uncovered the unexpected hallmarks of a kilonova, the colossal explosion triggered by colliding neutron stars. Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Spaceengine
Fillowup observations of an explosive collision involving neutron stars by two Maunakea observatories reveals that a so-called “long gamma-ray burst” (originally detected from an observatory in Earth orbit) upends our understanding of the origin of these extraordinary events.
Read more, in the W.M.Keck Observatory and International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab press releases.
