One of those detections was EP240408a, an unusual blast that lit up discussions between astronomers. Zhang and his colleagues ...

The shoebox-sized BurstCube satellite has observed its first gamma-ray burst, the most powerful kind ... BurstCube's lead engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Astronomers are trying to understand a mysterious cosmic explosion that the Einstein Probe spacecraft spotted in April last year.

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A massive burst of gamma rays produced by the explosion of a star almost two billion light-years away was so powerful that it ...

"The gamma-ray burst traveled through intergalactic space at the speed of light for eleven billion years, during which time the Sun and the planets were born." — Timothy Ferris, in the film ...

On March 15, 2024, a space-based observatory detected bursts of low-energy X-rays from deep in the ancient universe, ...

"In addition, the bursts were extremely rapid ... "This is the region where the detector on NASA's orbiting Compton Gamma Ray Observatory makes observations. "Just why Markarian 421 radiates in this ...

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs): Extremely powerful explosions in distant galaxies that emit vast amounts of energy, mainly as gamma rays. Hypernovae (Massive Star Explosions): Ultra-powerful stellar ...

AbstractLong-duration gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) are the signatures of extraordinarily ... Support for this work was provided by NASA through Einstein Postdoctoral Fellowship grant number PF0-110075 ...

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 ...