An incredibly powerful flash of X-rays spotted by the Einstein Probe telescope appears to be a kind of explosion first ...
A single subatomic particle from deep space had the same energy as a baseball pitch, and scientists still don’t know how it ...
GRB 250702B emerged from the top edge of its host galaxy’s dark dust lane (see inset). Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, H Sears (Rutgers). Credit: STScI Gamma-ray bursts are the universe’s ultimate flash in ...
In November 2024, gravitational-wave detectors recorded the violent merger of two black holes billions of light-years away. Normally, such events are invisible to telescopes, producing only faint ...
Gamma-ray bursts rank among the most powerful explosions in the universe, often flashing for less than a second while releasing enormous amounts of energy. Astronomers usually trace these brief bursts ...
Most gamma-ray bursts—the brightest, most powerful explosions in the universe—are tracked back to the deaths of massive stars. But a new discovery suggests that such enormous explosions can come from ...
This artist’s concept depicts GRB 250702B (left of center) erupting within its host galaxy. This powerful explosion, first detected on July 2, blasted out narrow jets of particles at nearly the speed ...
Eleonora Troja receives funding from European Research Council. Billions of light years away in a remote part of the universe, two neutron stars – the ultradense remnants of dead stars – collided. The ...
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope, researchers pinpointed a short gamma-ray burst to a faint galaxy that appears to be part of a larger group of galaxies about 8.5 ...
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 ...
It's commonly believed that there's no sound in space, but that's far from the case. For instance, sonifications from NASA have allowed us to hear the sounds of a black hole, and, in 2025, astronomers ...
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