How to Use gamma ray in a Sentence

gamma ray

noun

• It’s like the gamma ray emerging from a box of red light.
  — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 16 May 2022
• And the WIMPs tied to the gamma rays are almost as flexible.
  — Quanta Magazine, 3 Mar. 2014
• In space, there are no clouds or rain to shield humans from such gamma rays.
  — Andy Pasztor, WSJ, 17 Apr. 2018
• Physicists do not think the sun emits any gamma rays from within.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 Aug. 2019
• But gamma rays weren't the only thing the merger produced.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2018
• But only some of these gamma rays escape the sun and make it to our detectors.
  — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 27 Feb. 2023
• There's radio, radio waves all the way up to past the visible spectrum to gamma rays.
  — WIRED, 23 Mar. 2023
• Electrons in the plasma would collide with the photons, nudging them up to gamma ray strength.
  — Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 8 Apr. 2021
• The Fermi telescope has spent the last decade scanning the sky to compile list of gamma ray sources in the observable universe.
  — Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2018
• Scientists now believe that a burst of life known as a gamma ray may have helped play a vital role in the origins of life on Earth.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 11 Dec. 2022
• Given a bit of energy (via an X-Ray or a gamma ray), the vibrations will get faster.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 30 May 2018
• Astronomers estimate that such a bright a gamma ray burst may not appear again for decades.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Oct. 2022
• To their surprise, the researchers found the most intense gamma rays appear strangely synced with the quietest part of the solar cycle.
  — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2018
• The link between gamma ray bursts (GRBs) and supernovae has been a confusing one.
  — Amber Jorgenson, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2019
• The resulting explosion sent a burst of gamma rays streaming through space and rippled the very fabric of the universe.
  — Author: Sarah Kaplan, Ben Guarino, Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Oct. 2017
• When neutron stars slam together, all kinds of things burst out: gamma rays, X-rays, radio waves.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
• Same could apply to changes in the Earth's magnetic field or gamma ray bursts that would bathe the whole planet in radiation.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 26 Aug. 2022
• The gamma rays would rip apart the nitrogen and oxygen molecules in the atmosphere.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 22 Dec. 2017
• Yet dark matter wasn’t the only thing that could be generating the excess gamma rays.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Apr. 2019
• The brightest outpourings of energy in the universe are gamma ray bursts.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2023
• Bursts of gamma rays may be the key to identifying whether this primordial black hole exists.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 1 Oct. 2019
• In the coming days, dozens of observatories would study the event at every wavelength of light, from gamma rays to radio waves.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2017
• Draw a circle on the sky around the galactic center 30° in radius and the excess will account for 2% of all gamma rays coming from within it.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 12 Nov. 2019
• Excess gamma rays from the center of our own galaxy were, for a while, thought to be a possible signature of dark matter.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2018
• These cosmic rays tend to be gamma rays generated by the fusion reactions in the sun.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 2 Nov. 2017
• That's good news because while our ozone layer protects us from most gamma rays, a powerful burst would be far too much to handle.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2016
• The overwhelming likelihood is that the black hole spewed out both the gamma rays and massive amounts of neutrinos, including the one IceCube caught.
  — Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 1 Jan. 2019
• Seconds later, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope saw a bright flash called a short gamma ray burst that lasted two seconds.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2017
• But the source of gamma rays in excess of 100 gigaelectronvolts has remained a mystery.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2019
• Astronomers captured the event in x-ray and gamma ray, radio emissions, and visible light images.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024