One of those detections was EP240408a, an unusual blast that lit up discussions between astronomers. Zhang and his colleagues ...

Astronomers are baffled by EP240408a, a rare cosmic explosion that defies explanation, sparking theories of a black hole and ...

"In addition, the bursts were extremely rapid ... The detector on the telescope consists of 109 photomultiplier tubes that amplify a light signal. The gamma rays are not observed directly, but are ...

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 ...

An illustration shows a gamma-ray burst erupting from a dying massive star. (Image credit: Robert Lea (created by Canva)) First detected in 1967, gamma-ray bursts may be much more familiar to ...

In this series, we cover provocative questions in astronomy. This week: the mysterious extragalactic signals known as Fast ...

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

Recently, China’s Tianguan satellite (Einstein Probe Satellite) detected a gamma-ray burst EP240315a. It's the first time to ...

China Einstein Probe EP astronomical satellite has for the first time in human history detected soft X-ray signals from an ...

such as a black hole merger or a gamma-ray burst. We'll need new equipment to detect such "multimodal" signals, especially electromagnetic ones. One such project is the Black Hole Coded Aperture ...