A new, powerful telescope is beginning what astronomers hope will be a 10-year journey to gather information about the universe, including where gamma-ray bursts come from, the processes near blackholes and they hope to shine some light on dark matter.
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has already found over 100 new sources of gamma-ray bursts, the high energy flash of cosmic rays that seem to come from random places in the universe.
