The record-setting cosmic outburst was actually a gamma-ray burst, the most powerful class of cosmic explosions.
NASA has created an animation to show what likely happened on July 2nd after a black hole appeared to shred a star. For ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the light of a star that exploded when the universe was still in its cosmic youth ...
Most scientists agree the prolonged flash likely occurred when a black hole ate a star, but two other ideas can't be ruled ...
A gamma-ray burst of unprecedented duration and behavior, detected last July, is keeping the international astrophysics ...
Scientists say the best explanation for the longest gamma ray burst is that a black hole consumed a star, but they disagree ...
A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope uncovers clues about a mysterious cosmic blast that defies expectationsA Rutgers ...
What can an exploding star in a distant galaxy teach scientists about red supergiants? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of ...
The bright binary star system V Sagittae will flare up multiple times before finally going supernova within the next 100 ...