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

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are some of the most violent events in the universe. Some have a power output equivalent to all of ...

Our viewing guide tells you which planets are visible in October's night sky and how you can see them. October makes for an excellent month for viewing planets in he night sky. Venus remains a ...

Scientists from Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics have introduced a new method to measure moderately saturated ...

The world’s brightest X-ray machine has just produced its first record-breaking X-rays, which will allow researchers to observe atoms, molecules and chemical reactions in unmatched detail.

When you think of a radiation detector, you’re probably thinking of a Geiger tube and its high voltage circuitry. That isn’t the only way to measure gamma radiation, though, and [Alan] has a ...

Sep. 18, 2023 — New research is challenging the scientific status quo on the limits of the nuclear chart in hot stellar environments where temperatures reach ...

CHICAGO: An international team of astronomers has captured the first-ever polarized radio waves from a distant cosmic explosion, known as gamma-ray burst GRB 190114C. Astronomers have hypothesized ...

In 2014, a blind astronomer “sonified” the universe’s most explosive event: a gamma-ray burst. By listening to, rather than looking at, the data, she made a critical discovery and changed the field of ...

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