SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Approximately a year and a half ago, a massive star collapsed and exploded 2 billion light-years away from Earth creating the brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded ...
The brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded was caused by the collapse and explosion of a massive star, astronomers have discovered. Dubbed the B.O.A.T. (‘brightest of all time’) a team of ...
“It was probably the brightest ... the first time gamma rays from a supernova have struck Earth. “There has been a great debate about the possible consequences of a gamma-ray burst in our ...
"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 ...
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 ...
capturing the evolution of the gamma-ray burst's afterglow emission. The researchers found that this particular burst originated from a very dense environment in the middle of a bright galaxy at a ...
On March 15, 2024, a space-based observatory detected bursts of low-energy X-rays from deep in the ancient universe, ...
Astronomers are trying to understand a mysterious cosmic explosion that the Einstein Probe spacecraft spotted in April last year.
A newly detected cosmic explosion, EP240408a, could be the result of a white dwarf's death, creating a high-speed jet. It ...
New study describes unique jet structure of brightest gamma-ray burst - 3 Qs with Brendan O'Connor (VIDEO) George Washington University This video is under embargo.
One of those detections was EP240408a, an unusual blast that lit up discussions between astronomers. Zhang and his colleagues ...