FRBs are sporadic, intense flashes of radio wave energy that can be brighter than entire galaxies. In just thousandths of a ...

Was a powerful cosmic explosion seen by the Einstein Probe launched by a supermassive black hole snacking on a star, by a ...

Scientists discover low-mass microquasars can accelerate cosmic rays, reshaping theories on high-energy particle origins.

Highly energetic explosions in the sky are commonly attributed to gamma-ray bursts. We now understand ... in our understanding of these unusual cosmic explosions," says Pasham, a research ...

On 15 March 2024, Einstein Probe's Wide-field X-ray Telescope ... that confirmed that the burst had come from around 12.5 billion light-years away, beginning its cosmic journey to us when the ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) continue to baffle astronomers ... CHIME’s design allows it to detect FRBs across a wide field of view, including rare repeating events like this one.

The Einstein Probe detected a 17-minute soft X-ray burst from 12.5 billion light-years away, challenging gamma-ray burst ...

Astronomers are trying to understand a mysterious cosmic explosion that the Einstein ... explosion was initially attributed to a burst of gamma rays emitted either by the collision of two neutron ...

An illustration shows a gamma-ray burst erupting from a dying massive star. (Image credit: Robert Lea (created by Canva)) First detected in 1967, gamma-ray bursts may be much more familiar to ...