Milestone ISRO's AstroSat detects more than 600 gamma-ray bursts over 8 yrs
India’s astrosat space telescope has achieved a significant milestone by detecting more than 600 gamma-ray burst (grb), each marking the death of a massive star or merging of neutron stars. “the detection of the 600th grb is a great demonstration of the continued undiminished performance of cadmium zinc telluride imager (czti) eight years after launch, and well after its design lifetime,” dipankar bhattacharya, the principal investigator for czti, said. dubbed as mini big-bangs, grbs are the most energetic