Fermi's Gamma-ray Burst Monitor
The Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) is one of the instruments aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The GBM studies gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe, as well as other flashes of gamma rays. Gamma-ray bursts are created when massive stars collapse into black holes or when two superdense stars merge, also producing a black hole. The GBM sees these bursts across the entire sky, and scientists are using its observations to learn more about the universe.
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animator
- Shoshana Schlauderaff (GSFC Interns)
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Support
- Scott Wiessinger (USRA)
- Sara Mitchell (University of Maryland College Park)
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Science writer
- Jeanette Kazmierczak (University of Maryland College Park)
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Narrator
- Judith Racusin (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Friday, August 17, 2018.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:46 PM EDT.