Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A massive burst of gamma rays produced by the explosion of a star almost two billion light-years away was so powerful that it ...

"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 ...

On March 15, 2024, a space-based observatory detected bursts of low-energy X-rays from deep in the ancient universe, ...

An open-access report of their findings, published Jan. 27 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, indicates that the characteristics of this explosion do not match those of typical gamma-ray bursts.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- An international team of astronomers has observed extremely rapid bursts of high-energy gamma rays from a distant galaxy, an observation that is challenging how astronomers ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the greater mysteries facing astronomers today, rivaled only by gravitational waves (GWs) and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Originally discovered in 2007 by American ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs ... A collision with another galaxy can lead to deadly impact, creating new black holes and altering the galaxies due to the clashing gravitational ...

The burst was linked to GRB 240315C, a gamma-ray burst, but its characteristics—like a 6-minute delay between X-rays and gamma rays—challenge existing theories of GRB formation. Weimin Yuan, ...

126, No. 935, January 2014 The Host Galaxies of Long-Duration Gamma... The Host Galaxies of Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section.