A cosmic explosion with an energy equivalent to the output of a billion suns went unnoticed by astronomers until they caught ...
A Black Hole May Have Eaten a Star and Produced the Longest Gamma-Ray Burst Ever Recorded ...
In November 2024, gravitational-wave detectors recorded the violent merger of two black holes billions ...
GRB 230906A, a short gamma-ray burst first detected in 2023, points to a faint galaxy embedded within a long stream of torn ...
Gamma-ray bursts are the most violent explosions in the universe. In a fraction of a second, they can release more energy ...
Gamma-ray bursts are a relatively new field in space science. The first was discovered in the late 1960s, and in the nearly six decades since, there’s never been a discovery quite like this. It may ...
An illustration of two stellar-mass black holes merging in the accretion disk of an active galactic nucleus. (Shu-Rui Zhang) ...
An international team from China and Italy has reported a possible cosmic encore to the landmark 2017 multi-messenger ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Gamma-ray bursts are a relatively new discovery in space science. The first burst was discovered in the late 1960s. You might be wondering ...
In 2023, astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope spotted an unusual class of short ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals new clues about a mysterious cosmic explosion that defies expectations.
When space telescopes blazed with high-energy radiation for hours earlier this year, astronomers suspected that they were witnessing something special. The cosmic flash GRB 250702B was no ...