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

Artist's visualization of GRB 221009A showing the narrow relativistic jets — emerging from a central black hole — that gave rise to the GRB and the expanding remains of the original star ejected via ...

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

Astronomers with The LHAASO Collaboration have found that last year's GRB 221009A gamma-ray burst, subsequently nicknamed the Brightest of All Time (BOAT), carried with it 13 teraelectronvolts of ...

What if we told you that supernovas aren't the brightest events in the Universe? Gamma-ray bursts are. They shine hundreds of ...

A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary cosmic outburst this July which likely heralds a new kind of stellar ...

The brilliant afterglow of a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB) has enabled astronomers to probe the star-forming environment of a distant galaxy, resulting in the first detection of molecular gas in a ...

The LST-1 telescope, located at the CTAO’s northern array site in La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain), began observing GRB 221009A just 1.33 days after the initial explosion. GRBs are among the ...

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