The shoebox-sized BurstCube satellite has observed its first gamma-ray burst, the most powerful kind ... BurstCube's lead engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Astronomers are trying to understand a mysterious cosmic explosion that the Einstein Probe spacecraft spotted in April last year.

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 ...

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

"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 ...

"In addition, the bursts were extremely rapid ... "This is the region where the detector on NASA's orbiting Compton Gamma Ray Observatory makes observations. "Just why Markarian 421 radiates in this ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the greater mysteries facing astronomers today, rivaled only by gravitational waves (GWs) ...

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs): Extremely powerful explosions in distant galaxies that emit vast amounts of energy, mainly as gamma rays. Hypernovae (Massive Star Explosions): Ultra-powerful stellar ...

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 ...

AbstractLong-duration gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) are the signatures of extraordinarily ... Support for this work was provided by NASA through Einstein Postdoctoral Fellowship grant number PF0-110075 ...

I worked at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland ... usually among others, that gamma-ray bursts were consistent with occurring at cosmological distances. I led a group that developed and ...