Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have contributed to new insights into the most long-lived cosmic explosion ever recorded. The event was a gamma-ray burst that remained ...

An explosion — about 100 times brighter than previously recorded — blinded scientists' instruments. Scientists marveled at the power of the gamma-ray jet, which likely marked the birth of a black hole ...

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 ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

Satellites captured images of how the gamma blast lit up dust rings in space Scientists have revealed how Nasa satellites detected the brightest gamma ray explosion in space. The gamma-ray burst (GRB) ...

A single gamma-ray burst has forced astronomers to redraw their mental map of how the most violent explosions in the universe work. Instead of behaving like a textbook blast, this eruption stayed ...

Our solar system was hit by a gamma-ray burst so bright, it blinded space equipment and telescopes. The gamma-ray, dubbed the "brightest of all time," hit our solar system last fall. Scientists said ...

Astronomers detected the massive blast about one billion light years away – a distance close enough to be in our “cosmic backyard”. Usually they happen 20 billion light years away. The experts believe ...

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A massive gamma-ray blast more than a billion light years from Earth is the largest explosion in the Universe ever detected and recorded by astronomers. The explosive event was the death of a star and ...

The brightest gamma-ray explosion ever caught on record, which was so bright it blinded scientific instruments, just got weirder. GRB 221009, first spotted in October 2022, outshone other cosmic ...

A phenomenal cosmic explosion of gamma radiation from a collapsing star has been captured by scientists in Nambia. The gamma-ray burst (GRB) was captured by the High Energy Stereoscopic System on 29 ...