A New Way to Look at Gamma Ray Bursts

When we first discovered gamma ray bursts, scientists thought that what they were seeing were gamma rays from earthbound detonations of nuclear weapons. We don't always have a lot of warning, right? We don't know when it's going to happen. And one thing we're doing is to try to study these gamma ray bursts in more detail and see whether they come along with other signs like flashes of neutrinos or other things we can see in the optical.