Scientists at Northwestern University said Friday they had confirmed that the cause of the brightest gamma-ray burst ever observed (the circled infrared afterglow and host galaxy pictured 1-2 months ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Amy Lien, University of Tampa (THE CONVERSATION) When faraway stars explode, they send ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

Dense knots of dust in otherwise normal galaxies dim the light of a dark gamma-ray burst (center). The dust absorbs most or all of a burst’s visible light but not higher-energy X-rays and gamma rays.

WASHINGTON — Astronomers studying two exploding stars, or supernovae, have found evidence the blasts received an extra boost from newborn black holes. The supernovae were found to emit jets of ...

April 12 (UPI) --Scientists at Northwestern University said Friday they had confirmed that the cause of the brightest gamma-ray burst ever observed in October 2022 was the destruction of a star, known ...

Gamma-ray bursts are the universe's biggest explosions, capable of producing so much light that ground-based telescopes easily detect it billions of light-years away. Yet, for more than a decade, ...