Artist´s impression of a gamma ray burster. Credits: NASA/Zhang & Woosley
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Natalia Ruiz Zelmanovitch
Gamma-ray bursts are extremely energetic, very brief, events which happen unpredictably at any point in the sky. The detection of one of these bursts in polarized light is contrary to some models of physics on a microscopic scale which try to unify quantum physics with general relativity.
More information in the Spanish version of this report
Links:
- Images from the scientific article
- Scientific article: The polarized Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 061122