A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary ...
Sarah Dalessi, a fifth-year student in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The ...
Most scientists agree the prolonged flash likely occurred when a black hole ate a star, but two other ideas can't be ruled ...
NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...
The blank horizontal bar is the galactic plane area, which was excluded from the analysis to avoid strong astrophysical ...
A seven-hour gamma-ray burst, GRB 250702B, stuns astronomers and hints at powerful new cosmic engines still unknown to science.
NASA observed GRB 250702B, a record-setting gamma-ray burst lasting days, likely caused by a black hole consuming a star, ...
Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped uncover new clues about the longest-lasting cosmic ...
Telescopes operating up and down the electromagnetic spectrum have confirmed that the longest gamma ray burst (GRB) was ...
From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...
Astronomers have observed the longest-ever gamma-ray burst — a powerful, extragalactic explosion that lasted over seven hours ...
When a distant galaxy briefly outshines everything around it in high-energy light, astronomers usually know which playbook to reach for. Gamma-ray bursts tend to fall into familiar categories, either ...