"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 ...

26 issue of the journal Nature. In the past four years, the team of astronomers working at the Smithsonian's Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Arizona has observed high-energy gamma-ray bursts ...

But for a supernova to produce the strongest type of gamma-ray burst, the star must be some 30 to 40 times the size of the sun. This new powerful detection, so rare that we'll likely only observe ...

The brightest gamma-ray burst of all time, or the BOAT, was spotted in October 2022. The 1-in-10,000-year event showcased the extremity of gamma rays in our universe, and raised more questions ...

India’s MACE telescope has detected a gamma-ray flare from a distant quasar, marking a breakthrough in cosmic observation. The burst, originating from quasar OP 313 (B2 1308+326), is 8 billion ...