The telescope accidentally caught the 'monster' that distorts space - time

FERMI - NASA's super gamma-ray space telescope - could be the next warrior on a mission to hunt down the merger and collision events of the most terrible monsters in the universe.

According to SciTech Daily, an international team of astronomers has discovered the special ability of FERMI. In the past, extreme cosmic events such as the collision of pulsars, the merger of monster black holes. were often detected by radio telescopes. But FERMI has one more ultimate advantage: gamma rays.

NASA's FERMI Space Telescope

The team led by Dr. Aditya Parthasarathy and Dr. Michael Kramer from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (Bonn, Germany) said that the above events often create a whole sea of ​​gravitational waves, making space-time. must be deformed, rippled.

According to the article published in Science, astronomers have been searching for these waves for decades. However, the sea of ​​gravitational waves will be subtly altered when reaching Earth, leading to certain errors when learning about "monsters".

Gamma rays from FERMI provide unexpected benefits. It is the highest energy form of light, so it "sees" even objects that are difficult to see with radio telescopes and always gives a clearer view.

Dr. Matthew Kerr, a physicist from the US Naval Research Laboratory (Washington - USA), a member of the research team, said that FERMI has helped them capture more than 100 pulsars to date - which are "dead" stars. dead" neutrons spin extremely fast, extremely powerful.

FERMI is managed primarily by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, developed in partnership with the US Department of Energy. Many countries such as France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Sweden have also made important contributions to this project.