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Volume 156, Number 2 (July 10, 1999)

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News Flash: Astronomers Demystify Gamma-Ray Bursts

Brightest lights may herald the birth of black holes

Gamma-ray bursts, the very brightest events in the cosmos, may signal creation of the very darkest objects.

Sources:

Joshua S. Bloom
California Institute of Technology
Palomar Observatory 105-24
Pasadena, CA 91125

Andrew MacFadyen
University of California, Santa Cruz
Board Studies A&A
Santa Cruz, CA 95064

Bohdan Paczynski
Princeton University Observatory
Department of Astrophysics
124 Peyton Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544

Tsvi Piran
Hebrew University
Racah Institute of Physics
Jerusalem 91904
Israel

Stanford E. Woosley
University of California, Santa Cruz
Board Studies A&A
Santa Cruz, CA 95064

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 2, July 10, 1999, p. 28. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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