"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 ...

Watch an animation of a black hole shooting jets of particles through a "collapsing star at nearly the speed of light" and ...

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.

Brace yourselves as we dive into the fascinating yet terrifying world of gamma ray bursts! 🌌🔭 They ... unlike other airlines Discovering the real purpose of the car's overhead handle ...

This gamma-ray burst has come from two billion light-years away, which means it occurred two billion years ago. Published today in the journal Nature Communications, a new paper reveals that on ...

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 ...

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.

Highly energetic explosions in the sky are commonly attributed to gamma-ray bursts. We now understand that these bursts ...

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 ...