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Just nine days later, the bright nearby burst happened, leading to the Fermi detection of the highest energy gamma-ray ever.
CNN: Why gamma-ray burst shocked scientists
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"It's taken years of hard work and close collaboration among universities, national laboratories and private companies to get to this point, " said Pier Oddone, director of the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
ENGADGET: NOvA neutrino detector captures cosmic rays in 3D, aims to unlock the mysteries of the universe
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Fermi has been a tremendous success at examining some of the most high-energy processes in the cosmos, publishing a catalogue filled with details of the spinning neutron stars known as pulsars, and a wide array of "active galactic nuclei" - probably supermassive black holes.
BBC: Fermi telescope may change to dark matter hunting
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For a quarter of a century before CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) began working in earnest in 2009 the Tevatron, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, near Chicago, dominated high-energy physics.
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