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

It’s the greatest cosmic murder mystery of the year: How did a black hole destroy a star—and what kind of black hole is the culprit? Normally, so-called “gamma ray bursts,” sudden flashes of extremely ...

A space explosion detected this summer burned for days on end, making it the longest and most unusual gamma-ray burst ever seen. Gamma-ray bursts are the universe’s most powerful explosions. They ...

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Astronomers have detected a gamma-ray burst (GRB) like none other. GRB 250702B was longer than any ever observed and repeated. The GRB was "unlike anything ever witnessed before," according to the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Gamma-ray bursts are a relatively new discovery in space science. The first burst was discovered in the late 1960s. You might be wondering ...

You might think astronomers have seen it all, but the universe still throws us occasional new mysteries to keep us on our toes. They aren’t that unusual to spot—the universe is so big and GRBs are so ...

You might think astronomers have seen it all, but the universe still throws us occasional new mysteries to keep us on our toes. They aren’t that unusual to spot—the universe is so big and GRBs are so ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

When space telescopes blazed with high-energy radiation for hours earlier this year, astronomers suspected that they were witnessing something special. The cosmic flash GRB 250702B was no ...

A black hole that was eaten by a star seems to have gotten revenge by consuming the star from the inside, producing a gamma-ray burst spotted about 9 billion light-years from Earth. The burst, called ...

Gamma-ray bursts are a relatively new field in space science. The first was discovered in the late 1960s, and in the nearly six decades since, there’s never been a discovery quite like this. It may ...