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February 17, 2023
About 1.1 billion light years away, two neutron stars merged. The collision stripped material off the neutron stars, resulting in a kilonova explosion and a gamma-ray burst. But when the GRB was identified on Earth in 2021, a team led by Northwestern researchers noticed something unusual. The GRB lasted about 50 seconds, a time period...
December 7, 2022
Long gamma-ray bursts can be generated by neutron star mergers, study finds. For nearly two decades, astrophysicists have believed that long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) resulted solely from the collapse of massive stars. Now, a new study upends that...
June 7, 2022
The University of Rhode Island is reaffirming its commitment to high-performance research computing with a major investment in the Massachusetts Green High-Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC). URI became the first academic institution outside of the state of Massachusetts to join the center in November 2021. The center is a collaboration of the five major research universities in Massachusetts – Boston University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern Univer...