How to Use gamma-ray burst in a Sentence

gamma-ray burst

noun

• That's because gamma-ray bursts don't happen all of the time.
  — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 7 July 2026
• The gamma-ray burst — witnessed as a long, bright pulse of light — was the birth cry of a black hole.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 22 Oct. 2022
• But although lethal, nearby gamma-ray bursts are also very rare.
  — Seth Shostak, Quartz, 26 Sep. 2019
• In each instance, the gamma-ray burst does not come from the explosion itself.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Wired, 18 July 2021
• On the other hand, short gamma-ray bursts have pulses shorter than two seconds.
  — Amy Lien, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2024
• Unfortunately, the chances of seeing a gamma-ray burst go off so close by aren’t very high.
  — Erika K. Carlson, Discover Magazine, 14 Jan. 2020
• Another option is that the long gamma-ray bursts don’t come from feasting newborn black holes at all.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
• The link between this observation and the gamma-ray burst event wasn’t evident at first.
  — Dhananjay Khadilkar, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2023
• However, the researchers knew the February flare was too bright to have been a gamma-ray burst.
  — Jacquelyne Germain, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2022
• The gamma-ray burst was slightly offset from the center of the black hole, so its light took two paths, one slightly longer than the other.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Mar. 2021
• Launched in 2004 to study gamma-ray bursts, the telescope was designed for a modest two-year run.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2026
• At the greatest distances of all, gamma-ray bursts mark the universe’s most energetic events.
  — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 22 Sep. 2025
• The team concluded that an intermediate-mass black hole sat between us and the gamma-ray burst.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Mar. 2021
• Astronomers found a fireball from a gamma-ray burst in 2013, but there was no proof that neutron stars were involved.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
• On average, there is thought to be one observable gamma-ray burst in the visible universe every day.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Wired, 18 July 2021
• Again, the rate at which this would occur is sufficiently low that very few planets would ever be sterilized by a gamma-ray burst.
  — Discover Magazine, 17 July 2017
• Both gamma-ray bursts and supernovae have affected life here over the course of its 4-billion-year evolution.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
• The tiny particle originated in an enormous gamma-ray burst two billion light-years away from Earth.
  — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2026
• In just a few seconds, a gamma-ray burst blasts out the same amount of energy that the Sun will radiate throughout its entire life.
  — Eleonora Troja, The Conversation, 21 Dec. 2022
• This sudden release of radiation, also called a shock breakout, could produce a gamma-ray burst.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 14 Mar. 2026
• The new results suggest that neutron-star mergers are important sources of short-duration gamma-ray bursts, study team members said.
  — Mike Wall, Space.com, 5 Sep. 2018
• Space telescopes observed a short gamma-ray burst, a powerful beam of radiation, coming from about the same part of the sky about two seconds later.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2017
• Astronomers generally think that one type of gamma-ray burst, called long-duration gamma-ray bursts, come from very massive, fast-spinning stars.
  — Erika K. Carlson, Discover Magazine, 14 Jan. 2020
• Researchers took advantage of rare, powerful gamma-ray bursts in distant galaxies.
  — James Cirrone, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2026
• The Hubble Space Telescope captured the infrared afterglow of the very bright gamma-ray burst.
  — Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2023
• Astronomers around the world then got to work, training other telescopes on the part of the sky the gamma-ray burst had come from and poring through data that had already been collected.
  — The Economist, 16 Oct. 2017
• As a result, the light from the initial supernova that caused the gamma-ray burst was expected to become brightest a few months after the burst was sighted.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 9 Dec. 2025
• Over the years, numerous astronomers have suggested the culprit might have been a gamma-ray burst (GRB).
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2021
• The particles can pass through any kind of matter and contain information about some of the most energetic events in the universe, such as gamma-ray bursts.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 Feb. 2025
• Meanwhile, astronomers spied a bright gamma-ray burst that resulted from a rare cosmic explosion, releasing a shower of gold and platinum in space.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Dec. 2022