NU astronomers create new gamma-ray galaxy database

A Northwestern-led team of astronomers reached for the stars with a recently compiled gamma-ray galaxy database. The public database, known as BRIGHT, or the Broad-band Repository for Investigating Gamma-ray burst Host galaxies Traits, details 84 galaxies known to originate short gamma-ray bursts. Short gamma-ray bursts, or SGRBs, are explosions of energy theorized to be generated...

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