Last October, astronomers witnessed a fleeting, extraordinarily bright gamma ray burst in the distant universe. Since dubbed ...
Radiation from the brightest cosmic explosion ever seen may have been mixing with gas and dust around its dying star – making ...
The mystery behind the brightest explosion ever seen has finally been solved. In October last year, the Earth was hit by a ...
When scientists detected the gamma-ray burst known as GRB 221009A on October 9, 2022, they dubbed it the BOAT, or the ...
Few cosmic explosions have attracted as much attention from space scientists as the one recorded on October 22 last year and ...
A record-breaking space explosion that lit up the sky with the most power we've ever seen was caused by a structured jet ...
Scientists believe they may have finally solved the mystery behind the brightest explosion ever seen. Last October, Earth was ...
Fifty years ago, on June 1, 1973, astronomers around the world were introduced to a powerful and perplexing new phenomenon ...
Earlier this year, astronomers spotted a gamma ray burst that they’ve labeled “the brightest of all time.” Yet a gamma ray burst is only a single exploding star. When far more mass is ...
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