A Gamma Ray Race Through the Fabric of Space-Time Proves Einstein Right

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By Eliza Strickland
Oct 30, 2009 1:48 AMNov 19, 2019 9:56 PM
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New results are in from the Fermi Space Telescope, which settled into orbit in the summer of 2008, and the findings seem to prove Albert Einstein right once again. Man, that guy was good. The telescope detected and studied a gamma ray burst, one of the massively bright and powerful explosions that occurs when stars go supernova in distant galaxies. Astronomers were interested in the gamma rays of differing energies and wavelengths that were generated by the explosion, and that raced each other across the universe.

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