Over the past decade, thousands of such gamma-ray bursts have been detected. Since its launch in 2024, the Einstein Probe—an X-ray space telescope developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

After more than two decades, an international research team has identified a galactic mystery source of gamma rays: a heavy neutron star with a very low mass companion orbiting it. Using novel data ...

"This tells us something really new and maybe we have to rethink the models we have for gamma-ray bursts," says Weimin Yuan, NAO, CAS Einstein Probe Principal Investigator. Time and more data will ...

The Einstein Probe detected an unprecedented 17 ... The burst was linked to GRB 240315C, a gamma-ray burst, but its characteristics—like a 6-minute delay between X-rays and gamma rays ...