GRB 250314A : A message from the depths of time Just imagine. Around 13 billion years ago, one of the first stars in the Universe……
A great night for hunting gamma-ray bursts The burst advocate’s diary … On Wednesday 5 February 2025, it was 10.25pm when I received a notification……
Switch-on of the ECLAIRs trigger and first detection of a gamma-ray burst The first gamma-ray burst detected by the trigger system on board ECLAIRs is……
On 22 June 2024 at 07:00 UTC the Long March 2-C rocket blasted off from its launch pad carrying the SVOM satellite into space. A……
On 9 November 2021, the French Science Center (FSC) of the SVOM mission generated and sent its first alert to a ground-based robotic telescope for……
Optical follow-up of gravitionnal waves The first results of the space mission SVOM (for Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor) have just been released before……
The combination of two worldviews In the past, Europe and China have had two radically different visions of the cosmos. While the former has long……
The third SVOM scientific workshop, entitled “Disentangling the merging Universe with SVOM” and bringing together 70 participants, was held from 14 to 18 May 2018……
The event of August 2017 On August 17, 2017, ground-based gravitational wave detectors (LIGO and Virgo) detected an event, called GW 170817, interpreted as the……
The third gravitational wave event (GW170104) discovered by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration confirms the existence of massive stellar black holes with a mass larger than 20……