Watch an animation of a black hole shooting jets of particles through a "collapsing star at nearly the speed of light" and ...

Data collected using multiple NSF NOIRLab facilities reveal a gamma-ray burst that lasted more than seven hours and originated in a massive, extremely dust-rich galaxy. Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) rank ...

A smaller black hole merging with and consuming a companion star, leading to an explosion.

After the collision, researchers pored over the data archives of many telescopes, looking for any signs of light emissions from the origin of the gravitational waves. "We weren't actually expecting to ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most powerful explosions in the universe, second only to the Big Bang. The majority of ...

Sarah Dalessi, a fifth-year student in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, is the lead author of a paper published in ...

When space telescopes blazed with high-energy radiation for hours earlier this year, astronomers suspected that they were witnessing something special. The cosmic flash GRB 250702B was no ...

A space explosion detected this summer burned for days on end, making it the longest and most unusual gamma-ray burst ever seen. Gamma-ray bursts are the universe’s most powerful explosions. They ...

James Webb has spotted the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding just 730 million years after the Big Bang, offering ...