Positrons
Astronomers Uncover New Details in the Brightest Gamma Ray Burst Ever Detected
In October 2022, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory detected an extraordinarily powerful Gamma Ray…
A Pulsar is Blasting out Jets of Matter and Antimatter
Why is there so much antimatter in the Universe? Ordinary matter is far more plentiful than antimatter, but scientists keep…
Why Pulsars Are So Bright
When pulsars were first discovered in 1967, their rhythmic radio-wave pulsations were a mystery. Some thought their radio beams must…
Halo Around a Pulsar could Explain Why We See Antimatter Coming from Space
Astronomers have been watching a nearby pulsar with a strange halo around it. That pulsar might answer a question that's…
Antimatter Behaves Exactly the Same as Regular Matter in Double Slit Experiments
An experiment recently conducted by the QUPLAS collaboration confirmed the dual, particle-wave nature of antimatter.
Every Time Lightning Strikes, Matter-Antimatter Annihilation Happens too
A new study from a team of Japanese researchers has shown that matter-antimatter annihilations happen as a result of lightning…
Positron Signaling For Dark Matter Inconclusive
[/caption] A couple of years ago, the Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics, PAMELA, sent us back some…