The brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB ... to investigate the historic burst—GRB 221009A, dubbed the BOAT, or "brightest of all time"—to investigate whether the explosion, or supernova, could be a ...

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 ...

An international team of astronomers has observed extremely rapid bursts of high-energy gamma rays ... time of about one hour, the flux increased above the relatively quiescent value by more than a ...

A typical gamma ray burst lasting seconds or minutes produces about the same energy as our sun does over the course of its entire multi-billion-year lifecycle. Gamma-ray bursts are some of the ...

The strong currents of air in thunderstorms can cause air and water to shoot up and down very quickly. When this happens, ...

For the first time, scientists have caught lightning in the act of unleashing a powerful burst of gamma radiation known as a ...

"The gamma-ray burst ... time the Sun and the planets were born." — Timothy Ferris, in the film version of Seeing in the Dark. The Sun produces enough energy in one second to supply all the ...

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