Gamma-ray bursts are not uncommon, but ones like the seven-hour burst detected in 2025 definitely are. Scientists now have an ...

Gamma-ray bursts are the most powerful explosions in the universe. They emit most of their energy in gamma rays, light which is much more energetic than the visible light we can see with our eyes. In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists at Northwestern University said Friday they had confirmed that the cause of the brightest gamma-ray burst ever observed ...

A strange gamma-ray explosion that fired off repeated bursts from the same patch of sky over roughly seven hours has now been traced to its likely cause: a black hole ripping apart a star that strayed ...

China’s Einstein Probe has detected an event suspected to be the first recorded instance of a black hole devouring a white dwarf.

Space is full of surprises, and in 2025, astronomers witnessed one of the most extraordinary events ever registered: a gamma-ray burst (GRB) that lasted seven ...

Cambridge, MA – Gamma-ray bursts are the most powerful explosions in the universe, emitting huge amounts of high-energy radiation. For decades their origin was a mystery. Scientists now believe they ...

In 2022, astronomers discovered the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) of all time. Now, astronomers confirm that a 'normal' supernova, the telltale sign of a stellar collapse, accompanied the GRB. The ...

"The gamma-ray burst traveled through intergalactic space at the speed of light for eleven billion years, during which time the Sun and the planets were born." — Timothy Ferris, in the film version of ...

When faraway stars explode, they send out flashes of energy called gamma-ray bursts that are bright enough that telescopes back on Earth can detect them. Studying these pulses, which can also come ...

The KM3NeT collaboration is a large research group involved in the operation of a neutrino telescope network in the deep ...