A Black Hole May Have Eaten a Star and Produced the Longest Gamma-Ray Burst Ever Recorded ...

An illustration of two stellar-mass black holes merging in the accretion disk of an active galactic nucleus. (Shu-Rui Zhang) ...

NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope "detected none of the high-energy gamma-ray light" from a nearby supernova. NASA explains. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Gamma-ray bursts are the most violent explosions in the universe. In a fraction of a second, they can release more energy than the sun will emit across its entire 10-billion-year lifetime. Most are ...

An international team from China and Italy has reported a possible cosmic encore to the landmark 2017 multi-messenger ...

GRB 230906A, a short gamma-ray burst first detected in 2023, points to a faint galaxy embedded within a long stream of torn ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals new clues about a mysterious cosmic explosion that defies expectations.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The orange dot at the center of this image represents a powerful explosion that repeated several times over one day. - A. Levan, A ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have discovered a gamma ray explosion outside our galaxy that’s not only exceptionally powerful, but also long-lasting. Kennedy Space Center reveals 2 ...

An international team of astrophysicists from China and Italy has discovered a potential link between gravitational waves and ...

Gamma-ray binaries represent one of the most dynamic and intriguing classes of high-energy astrophysical systems. These binaries typically consist of a massive star and a compact object – often a ...