A cosmic explosion with an energy equivalent to the output of a billion suns went unnoticed by astronomers until they caught ...
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The seven-hour mass explosion that broke the rules of the universe
Gamma-ray bursts are the universe’s ultimate flash in the pan. In a fraction of a second, they can violently release more energy than our Sun will emit over its entire ten-billion-year lifespan.
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A black hole may have eaten a star and produced the longest gamma-ray burst ever recorded
A Black Hole May Have Eaten a Star and Produced the Longest Gamma-Ray Burst Ever Recorded ...
Gamma-ray bursts are the most violent explosions in the universe. In a fraction of a second, they can release more energy than the sun will emit across its entire 10-billion-year lifetime. Most are ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals new clues about a mysterious cosmic explosion that defies expectations.
GRB 230906A, a short gamma-ray burst first detected in 2023, points to a faint galaxy embedded within a long stream of torn ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists may have to rethink their playbook for studying gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful known cosmic explosions, after a ...
In 2023, astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope spotted an unusual class of short gamma-ray bursts, whose origin appeared to be the collision of two neutron ...
A space explosion detected this summer burned for days on end, making it the longest and most unusual gamma-ray burst ever seen. Gamma-ray bursts are the universe’s most powerful explosions. They ...
Ashna Gulati receives funding from the Australian Research Training Program and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav). Tara Murphy receives ...
Artist's rendition of GRB 250702B's ultra-relativistic jet (moving at nearly the speed of light) escaping from its dusty, massive host galaxy. Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel ...
Some of the universe's most extreme explosions leave behind almost no trace. The original explosion is unseen, but our observations can capture the long-lived echo it leaves behind as the shock front ...
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