News & Press Releases

  • Aug. 29, 2023, published an article titled A binary pulsar in a 53-minute orbit in Nature in collaboration with Z. Pan et al. The result was featured in SciTechDaily,

  • Aug. 24, 2023, Featured in an article by Las Vegas Weekly that reports astrophysics research at UNLV.

  • Aug. 22, 2023, a paper I coauthored on Hubble tension was featured in Space Daily.

  • Aug. 17, 2023, interviewed to comment on the brightest-of-all-time gamma-ray burst GRB 221009A by National Geographic.

  • Jul. 28, 2023, published an article titled A radio pulsar phase from SGR J1935+2154 provides clues to the magnetar FRB mechanism in Science Advances in collaboration with Weiwei Zhu, Heng Xu, Kejia Lee and others, reporting the discovery of a radio pulsar phase from the magnetar SGR J1935+2154 that emitted an FRB back in April 2000. The result was featured in Science Daily, ScienceMag, Devdiscourse, Knoweidge, The Daily Science, NewsWise, and UNLV News Center.

  • Jul. 26, 2023, published an article titled Sub-second periodic radio oscillation in a microquasar in Nature in collaboration with Wei Wang and others, reporting the discovery of a quasi-periodic oscillation feature in the radio band from a Galactic black hole accretion system (i.e. a microquasar). The result was featured in Science Daily, NewsWise, ScienceMag, TS2 Space, AZO Quantum, ScienceTechDaily, TechExplorist, Innovation, Curiosmos, REVYUH, The Daily Science, Open Access Government, sciencenet.cn, and UNLV News Center.

  • Jun. 20, 2023, published an article titled A binary pulsar in a 53-minute orbit in Nature in collaboration with Z. Pan, P. Jiang, J. L. Han and others, reporting the discovery of a new "spider pulsar" system with the shortest orbital period known. The result was featured in South China Morning Post and other media sources.

  • Mar. 29, 2023, commented on the detection of the brightest-of-all-time GRB 221009A by the Chinese space telescopes Insight-HXMT and GECAM-C. Reported in Science Magazine.

  • Mar. 23, 2023, published an article titled An assessment of the association between a fast radio burst and binary neutron star merger in Nature Astronomy in collaboration with Alexandra Moroianu, Linqing Wen, Clancy James and other collaborators, reporting a possible association between a binary neutron star merger gravitational wave event GW190425 and a fast radio burst FRB 20190425A. The result was featured in multiple media sources, including Science News, EurekAlert, Astronomy, The Conversation, Greeky.news, and UNLV News Center.

  • Dec. 7, 2022, published an article titled A long-duration gamma-ray burst with a peculiar origin in Nature as a corresponding author in collaboration with Prof. Bin-Bin Zhang and other collaborators, reporting the detection of a long-duration gamma-ray burst associated with a kilonova, proposing a new progenitor GRB model invoking mergers of a neutron star and a white dwarf near the Chandrasekhar mass limit. The result was featured in multiple media sources, including Inverse, Science News, Innovation, CNN, and UNLV News Center.

  • Oct. 25, 2022, interviewed by Interesting Engineering and South China Morning Post on the discovery of the brightest gamma-ray burst GRB 221009A.

  • Sep. 21, 2022, published an article titled A fast radio burst source at a complex magnetized site in a barred galaxy in Nature as a corresponding author in collaboration with Profs. Kejia Lee, Subo Dong, Weiwei Zhu and other collaborators, reporting the detection of 1863 polarized bursts from the repeating fast radio burst source, FRB 20201124A. The result was featured in multiple media sources, including Phys.org, NewsWise, Earth.com, CNN, South China Morning Post, Sciebce Alert, Yahoo!, Sky & Telescope, space.com, and UNLV News Center.

  • Jul. 15, 2022, interviewed by ScienceNews on the discovery of a peculiar long-duration fast radio burst with sub-second periodicity by the CHIME FRB team. Also reported in Today News 24.

  • Mar. 17, 2022, published an article titled Frequency-dependent polarization of repeating fast radio bursts—implications for their origin in Science reporting frequency-dependent polarization properties of repeating FRBs. The result was featured in multiple media sources, including Physics Today, Science Daily, Scitech Daily, and UNLV News Center.

  • Feb. 23, 2022, interviewed by ScienceNews on the discovery of a fast radio burst source in a globular cluster by the CHIME FRB team. Also reported in Levante.

  • Nov. 22, 2021, interviewed by Scientific American on research of fast radio bursts. Also reported in Germanic.

  • Oct. 13, 2021, published an article titled A bimodal burst energy distribution of a repeating fast radio burst source in Nature as a corresponding author in collaboration with Prof. Di Li and other collaborators, reporting the detection of 1652 bursts from the repeating fast radio burst source, FRB 121102. The result was featured in multiple media sources, including EurekAlert, Mirage, Science Daily, Germanic, News Atlas, Tech Explorist, WRAL News, CNN, Vice, Newsweek, Salon, Bollyinside, Sky&Telescope, Live Science, Techradar, TVN, Archynewsy, Archynewsy(again), and UNLV News Center.

  • July 26, 2021, published an article titled A peculiarly short-duration gamma-ray burst from massive star core collapse in Nature Astronomy in collaboration with Prof. Bin-Bin Zhang, a professor at Nanjing University and a former UNLV graduate, and other coauthors. A joint paper led by University of Maryland was published in the same issue. The result was reported by NASA and featured in Science News, Phys.org, TVN, NewsBeezer. Republic World, Nerdist, and Space.com.

  • December 14, 2020, published an article titled A possible bright ultraviolet flash from a galaxy at redshift z ~ 11 in Nature Astronomy in collaboration with scientists from Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University. The result was reported at Sky & Telescope.

  • November 4, 2020, published an article "No pulsed radio emission during a bursting phase of a Galactic magnetar" and a review article "The physical mechanisms of fast radio bursts" in Nature. The FAST results, together with those from the CHIME and STARE2 teams, were reported in multiple media sources, including CNN, BBC, New Scientist, Sky & Telescope, Creation&Evolution, vice.com, Sci & News, Business Insider, National Geographic, New York Post, space.com, Space Science, Popular Science, DailyGalaxy, Gizmodo, CBC News, Discover, NewsWise, Room, Cosmos, Tychyon Beam, Nano werk, KCTV, Techpost, Nature Asia, Scimex, and Centauri Dreams.

  • October 28, 2020, published an article "Diverse polarization angle swings from a repeating fast radio burst source" in Nature reporting observatons using the FAST radio telescope, which was reported in Science Codex, eurekalert, ScienceDaily, Government, and UNLV News Center.

  • October 13, 2020, published a paper in collaboration with scientists from University of Maryland and other institutions reporting late X-ray emission from the first binary neutron star merger GW170817. A joint press release was issued, and the story "Astronomers find X-rays lingering years after neutron star collision" was featured at UNLV News Center.

  • August 19, 2020, my ApJL paper "Fast radio bursts from interacting binary neutron star systems" was reported at Astrobites.

  • June 18, 2020, wrote a News & Views paper "Unexpected emission patten adds to the enigma of fast radio bursts" for Nature introducing the discovery of the ~16-day period of one repeating FRB by the CHIME/FRB Collaboration.

  • March 27, 2020, my ApJL paper "Fast radio bursts from interacting binary neutron star systems" was featured in AAS Nova.

  • February, 2020, interviewed by NewScientist regarding the significance of the discovery of a periodic FRB by the CHIME collaboration posted (available on arXiv). See multiple media source reports: Daily Mail, Express, among others.

  • November 20, 2019, wrote a News & Views paper "Extreme emission seen from gamma-ray bursts" for Nature introducing the discoveries of >100 GeV emission from GRBs 190114C and 180720B. Also interviewed by multiple media sources about the significance of the discoveries: Smithsonian Magazine, MIT Technology Review, Science & Tech, and LiveScience.

  • October 4, 2019, interviewed by NewScientist regarding theoretical models of repeating fast radio bursts.

  • May 15, 2019, my ApJ paper "Relativistic Astronomy" was discussed by Paul Gilster in his Centauri Dreams.

  • April 19, 2019, my ApJL paper "Charged Compact Binary Coalescence Signal and Electromagnetic Counterpart of Plunging Black Hole - Neutron Star Mergers" was featured in AAS Nova.

  • April 16, 2019, our Nature paper "A magnetar-powered X-ray transient as the aftermath of a binary neutron-star merger" was featured in multiple media sources, including NASA, TechExplorist, ScienceBlog, Astronomy.com, Futurity, Space.com, ScienceAlert, and UNLV News.

  • November 20, 2018, interviewed by Tencent Science and about gravitational waves and multi-messenger astrophysics. The news (in Chinese) can be found here. December 28, 2018, wrote a popular science article in Chinese to introduce multi-messenger astrophysics to the public.

  • August 23, 2018, interviewed by LiveScience about GRB models.

  • July 3, 2018, wrote an article for "The Conversation" entitled "Observing the universe with a camera traveling near the speed of light", which was also reported in multiple media sources, including Scientific American, Universe Today, and Astronomy Connect.

  • November 22, 2017, interviewed by New Scientist regarding the role of electron positron pairs in astrophysical sources, including GRBs, FRBs, and radio pulsars.

  • April, 2017, Quanta Magazine reported a story about the repeating FRB 121102 which featured interviews of many scientists including Zhang.

  • February 28, 2017, Nature News reported the Aspen FRB conference organized by Lorimer, Berger, Burke-Spolaor & Zhang. The meeting was also reported in Gale Academic Onefile.

  • August 22, 2016, my ApJL paper "Mergers of charged black holes: gravitational wave events, short gamma-ray bursts, and fast radio bursts" was featured in AAS Nova.

  • August 16, 2016, our PRD paper "Testing Einstein's weak equivalence principle with gravitational waves" was featured in UNLV news.

  • March 1, 2016, Quanta magazine and multiple media published an article entitled "After black holes collide, a puzzling flash" discussing the mysterious gamma-ray event following the first binary black hole merger, featuring my charged black hole merger theory as one of several possibilities.

  • August 1, 2015, UNLV graduate student Ye Li was featured in New Scientist regarding our ApJ paper "Can life survive gamma-ray bursts in the high-redshift universe?".

  • January 14, 2015, UNLV interview after the announcement of Bing Zhang being elected Fellow of American Physical Society.

  • May 8, 2014, UNLV News Center reports a paper published in Nature Physics by Z. Lucas Uhm and Bing Zhang.

  • October 23, 2013, UNLV News Center reports a story about the donor Russel Frank and Bing Zhang.

  • September 3, 2011, Las Vegas Review Journal reported my research in this article "UNLV professor gets to observe rare astronomical event".

  • August 25, 2011, UNLV News Center reports our Swift collaboration Nature paper on the discovery of the first jet launched from tidal disruption of star by a supermassive black hole.

  • October 28, 2009, wrote a News & Views article for Nature introducing two articles reporting the discovery of the most distant GRBs in the universe. Interviewed by multiple media sources about the significance of the discoveries including Scientific American.

  • August 12, 2009, UNLV astronomy group featured in the Innovation Magazine.

  • June, 2009, featured in the ScienceWatch citation statistics in the GRB field: 10-year rankings, 2-year rankings, and Research Front Maps.

  • May, 2009, research featured in Las Vegas Sun.

  • September 10, 2008, our Swift collaboration Nature paper was featured in a UNLV News, which reports the discovery of a bright GRB whose optical emission is visible by naked eye.

  • April 30, 2007, research featured in Las Vegas Review Journal.

  • December 21, 2006, wrote a News & Views article for Nature introducing four articles reporting discovery of a long GRB without supernova association and proposed a GRB physical classification scheme. A related work to interpret this long GRB as a physically short GRB was reported in SPACE Ref.

  • April 2006, a theroetical model on GRB X-ray flares in collaboration with Rosalba Perna and Phil Armitage featured at JILA, Colorado University.

  • December 14, 2005, our Swift collaboration Nature paper was featured in a NASA press release, which reports the discovery of a short GRB that can be interpreted as merger of a neutron star and a black hole.

  • Augurst 28, 2003, an ApJL paper by Zhang & Sigurdsson on planet collisions was featured in Nature news and views in brief.

  • March 21, 2003, interviewed by Robert Irion and featured in a news article on robotic follow up observastions of GRBs, which was published in Science.