Gamma rays turn Bruce Banner into the Incredible Hulk, but in real life, an explosion of gamma rays would kill the average person. Marvel Studios/Universal ...

Like ultraviolet radiation and X-rays, gamma rays can kill microorganisms and are used to sterilize food and other objects, such as medical instruments and equipment. Gamma radiation is also a ...

Gamma rays can only be detected by sensors made of dense metals and takes over six feet (1.8 meters) of concrete to block.

Just as high doses of X-rays are typically lethal, so too would an explosion of gamma rays kill the average person. Gamma rays can knock electrons around like a bowling ball would bowling pins.

Shrouded in mystery for decades, gamma-ray bursts are the brightest explosions since the Big Bang and emerge from only the most violent cosmic events.

Gamma-ray burst charged Earth’s ionosphere from 2 billion light-years away The brightest supernova ever detected altered the outer layers of Earth's atmosphere.

An artist’s concept of a burst of gamma rays — which are invisible — provoking a disturbance in Earth’s ionosphere. ESA/ATG Europe ...

Supernovae, gamma rays and primordial black holes — weird space phenomena that can kill Vaporised by gamma rays, warped and burnt by tiny black holes, or subjected to horrific cancers after the ...

Gamma-Ray bursts Gamma-ray bursts are brighter and rarer than supernovae. Much like supernovas, gamma-ray bursts are too far away from earth to be considered a viable threat.

Space Astronomers have just watched the most powerful explosion ever seen A gamma ray burst about 2.4 billion light years away is being called “the BOAT” – the brightest of all time – and ...

Horror space events that could kill us all from gamma-ray burst that ‘sterilises’ Earth to ‘unseen’ doomsday asteroid An asteroid isn't the worst thing that could crash into Earth ...