Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have contributed to new insights into the most long-lived cosmic explosion ever recorded. The event was a gamma-ray burst that remained ...

A strange flash in a distant galaxy first looked like a familiar kind of stellar wreckage, the radioactive afterglow of ...

Astronomers announce evidence of a rare and unprecedented cosmic event that might represent a new type of violent explosions in the universe. The explosion is known as the 'Superkilonova.' ...

In a strange turn of events, a supernova birthed twin baby neutron stars that merged to make a powerful kilonova.

The most extreme fireworks in the universe are supposed to follow rules. Gamma-ray bursts, the brightest explosions known, are neatly sorted into categories, each tied to a familiar kind of cosmic ...

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Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

Scientists may have to rethink their playbook for studying gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful known cosmic explosions, after a blast detected in July set a new record by firing energetic jets for ...

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar ...

Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major ...

Astronomers detected millisecond pulsations in a gamma-ray burst, confirming that newborn magnetars can power the universe's most extreme explosions. The burst, catalogued as GRB 230307A, erupted on ...

Astronomers observed a unique gamma-ray burst outside the Milky Way, repeating over a day, unlike any known star-destruction event. (Nanowerk News) Astronomers have detected an explosion of gamma rays ...