Astronomers have spotted the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen, a cosmic explosion that lasted seven hours — and they determined it could be the work of a black hole destroying a star. Gamma-ray ...
Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped uncover new clues about the longest-lasting cosmic explosion ever observed, a gamma-ray burst that lasted nearly seven hours.
Gamma-ray bursts are among the most powerful explosions observed in the universe. First accidentally detected by Vela ...
A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary cosmic outburst this July which likely heralds a new kind of stellar ...
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 ...
Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped uncover new clues about the longest-lasting cosmic explosion ever observed, a gamma-ray burst that lasted nearly seven hours.
At 8:56 AM ET on Tuesday, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope automatically detected a new long-duration gamma-ray burst, designated GRB 260623A, during the sudden collapse of what is likely a star ...
Astronomers have achieved a major breakthrough by detecting a hidden magnetic signal from one of the most powerful explosions ...
Artist's rendition of GRB 250702B's ultra-relativistic jet (moving at nearly the speed of light) escaping from its dusty, massive host galaxy. Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel ...