Scientists were trying to unravel the mystery of gamma ray bursts detected during lightning storms when they witnessed ...

Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars that emit regular radio wave pulses and beams of magnetic radiation, which can ...

Astronomers witnessed something remarkable in 2022: a Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) so strong that it changed Earth’s upper atmosphere and saturated detectors. This is the biggest explosion that NASA has ...

A sudden, record-breaking gamma-ray burst lit up the cosmos—leaving scientists stunned and searching for answers. the powerful flash, brighter than anything seen before, could change what we know ...

have detected a distant explosion from a galaxy, of what is also called a Gamma Ray flare. The detection of ultra-high-energy gamma rays by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO ...

You might owe that gold necklace around your neck to a moody, long-dead star from the universe’s ancient past. According to a new study, magnetars—a rare type of neutron star—may have forged some of ...

The brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever recorded, resulting from the collapse and subsequent explosion of a massive star, was first detected by space observatories in October 2022. Now, an ...

But the brightest gamma-ray explosion ever seen represented a new laboratory for the search for axions. According to a recent model of the extragalactic background light, high-energy gamma-ray photons ...

Hypernovae are associated with gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)-the most energetic explosions in the universe. The first hypernova was, in fact, identified just a few months after the announcement of a GRB, in ...

That same instrument, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), has now witnessed the same black hole erupt with a powerful and unexpected explosion ... light called gamma rays. Not only was this ...