Astrophysics: A burst of new ideas

Abstract

Gigantic cosmological gamma-ray bursts have fallen into a dichotomy of long and short bursts, each with a very different origin. The discovery of an oddball burst calls for a rethink of that classification.

7 pages, published in Nature News & Views, Vol 444, 1010-1011

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