Astronomers are trying to understand what caused a series of gamma ray bursts, or GRBs — the most powerful explosions in the universe. These energetic bursts are typically unleashed by the incendiary ...

(CNN) — Astronomers are trying to understand what caused a series of gamma ray bursts, or GRBs — the most powerful explosions in the universe. These energetic bursts are typically unleashed by the ...

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

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Astronomers from the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy have identified a new category of events that they found to be much more powerful than gamma-ray bursts, called extreme nuclear ...

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

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

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

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