On July 2, 2025, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM) captured around three hours' worth of signals that appeared ...

Gamma-ray burst, GRB 250702B, lasting for a record-breaking seven hours, stunned researchers Researchers have discovered a ...

An ultra-fast flash from the galaxy M82 reveals what may have been a rare "extragalactic magnetar giant flare." ...

In an inversion of the well known scenario of a black hole devouring a star, the researchers propose that a star actually ...

It's a celestial event that has astronomers both excited and puzzled. Dan Smith has the story of how a gamma-ray burst across ...

Stars often fall into black holes, and now it seems the opposite can also occur, producing an extra long-lasting explosion as ...

Astronomers are puzzled by a gamma ray burst, GRB 250702B, potentially caused by a star swallowing a black hole which then devoured the star from within.

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic and luminous explosions in the universe. However, they are fleeting and often ...

In 2018, astronomers took the first-ever picture of a black hole, a fascinating and unprecedented glimpse of an event horizon. And as it turns out, the black hole — dubbed M87* and located some 55 ...

Scientists led by Northwestern University and Soochow University in China have built the first perovskite-based detector that ...

A lead halide material can detect and image single gamma-ray photons with both high-spatial and high-energy resolution ...