ISRO's Space Telescope Spots Over 600 Gamma-Ray Bursts Over 8 Years
NDTV
GRBs last from a fraction of a second to several minutes, and are accompanied by the birth of a black hole.
India's AstroSat space telescope has achieved a significant milestone by detecting more than 600 Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB), each marking the death of a massive star or merging of neutron stars.
"The detection of the 600th GRB is a great demonstration of the continued undiminished performance of Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager (CZTI) eight years after launch, and well after its design lifetime," Dipankar Bhattacharya, the principal investigator for CZTI, said.
Dubbed as mini big-bangs, GRBs are the most energetic explosions in the universe, emitting more energy in seconds than the sun will emit in its entire lifetime, Gaurav Waratkar, a Ph.D student at IIT Bombay, who leads the study of GRBs with AstroSat, told PTI.
