Gamma-Ray Bursts Might Have a Really Weird Time-Reversible Mirroring Effect

Gamma-ray bursts are the brightest and most energetic events in the Universe. They’re also some of the more mysterious – but now researchers have made a discovery that could help us understand the conditions under which they occur.

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Tau.Neutrino said:

Gamma-Ray Bursts Might Have a Really Weird Time-Reversible Mirroring Effect

Gamma-ray bursts are the brightest and most energetic events in the Universe. They’re also some of the more mysterious – but now researchers have made a discovery that could help us understand the conditions under which they occur.

more…

> NASA’s gamma-ray burst observatory Swift, for instance, which was launched in 2004, had detected 1,000 bursts by late 2015.

That’s a heck of a lot of GRBs.

> low instrumental sensitivity, the researchers found, results in a lower resolution signal, “smearing” the structure of a gamma-ray burst pulse light curve

Without the smearing it looks like Morse code?

> This is where they found the complex time-reversible wavelike structures; and, moreover, only the brightest gamma-ray burst light curves had them.

Ah, so it is like Morse code …

… or Saturn’s rings. The finer you resolve the measurement the more detail appears.