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 ...

The universe hosts events so powerful that they dwarf anything humans can imagine. From magnetar flares and neutron star collisions to hypernovae and gamma-ray bursts, some cosmic explosions release ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This artist’s impression shows two tiny but very dense neutron stars at the point at which they merge and explode. ESO/L.

(THE CONVERSATION) Billions of light years away in a remote part of the universe, two neutron stars – the ultradense remnants of dead stars – collided. The catastropic cosmic event sent light and ...