The brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded recently lit up a distant galaxy — and astronomers have nicknamed it the BOAT, for Brightest of All Time. “We use the boat emoji a lot when we’re ...

Image: ESA/XMM-Newton/M. Rigoselli (INAF) The gamma-ray burst, affectionately dubbed ‘BOAT’ (Brightest of All Time), has been found to emit gamma-rays with energies reaching up to 13 ...

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 ...

In early October 2022 a wave of high-energy radiation swept over Earth from a gamma-ray burst ... next to the bright point in the sky. Because of the short amount of extra time it takes light ...

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 ...

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

To answer that, we first need to explore what fuels the universe's brightest ... the radiation could still sterilize half of all life on Earth. Fortunately, astronomers think that the chances of 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 ...