A sudden, record-breaking gamma-ray burst lit up the cosmos—leaving scientists stunned and searching for answers. the ...

The largest explosion NASA has seen since the Big Bang occurred just now, but it began ages ago. It could possibly harm the ...

A powerful cosmic event from 2004—a gamma-ray burst from a magnetar 30,000 light-years away—has just been revealed as a major ...

Back in October of 2022, astronomers around the world were baffled and awed by the largest gamma ... burst was so powerful, in fact, that it has been nicknamed the BOAT (Brightest of All Time).

A typical gamma ray burst lasting seconds or minutes produces about the same energy as our sun does over the course of its entire multi-billion-year lifecycle. Gamma-ray bursts are some of the ...

"The gamma-ray burst ... time the Sun and the planets were born." — Timothy Ferris, in the film version of Seeing in the Dark. The Sun produces enough energy in one second to supply all the ...

The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, is dwarfed by the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall. In fact, the team ...

Understanding the origin of heavy elements on the periodic table is one of the most challenging open problems in all of physics ... have gone before: the gamma-ray burst jet and surrounding ...