A sudden, record-breaking gamma-ray burst lit up the cosmos—leaving scientists stunned and searching for answers. the ...

The largest explosion NASA has seen since the Big Bang occurred just now, but it began ages ago. It could possibly harm the ...

A powerful cosmic event from 2004—a gamma-ray burst from a magnetar 30,000 light-years away—has just been revealed as a major ...

A new study has found that such heavy metals may have formed through eruptions on a rare type of star called a magnetar.

Abstract: The conventional derivation of the gamma-ray burst afterglow jet break time uses only the blast wave fluid Lorentz ... mesh simulations of arbitrary relativistic fluid flows. All analysis ...

When astronomers follow up the gamma ray burst with optical telescopes ... The emission tells them whether the star also exploded as a supernova or not. Not all GRBs are dying stars, however. About a ...

At the same time, redshifts were primarily obtained from the Gamma-Ray Burst Online Index (GRBOX), updated data from the Gamma-ray Coordinates Network (GCN), and the publicly available dataset ...

"Our gamma-ray burst sample is not large enough to place better upper limits on the maximum size of the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall than we already have," Hakkila said. "But it probably ...

During the flare, the blazar outshone the Vela pulsar, usually the brightest object in the gamma-ray sky. Credit ... how the universe changed over time. By discovering how AGN work, we can ...