The record-setting cosmic outburst was actually a gamma-ray burst, the most powerful class of cosmic explosions.
NASA has created an animation to show what likely happened on July 2nd after a black hole appeared to shred a star. For ...
A smaller black hole merging with and consuming a companion star, leading to an explosion.
NASA says that a stellar-mass black hole tore a star apart which created an unusually long-lasting gamma ray burst that has ...
Astronomers used major telescopes across the world to probe a cosmic explosion 8 billion light-years from the solar system.
A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary ...
Scientists say the best explanation for the longest gamma ray burst is that a black hole consumed a star, but they disagree ...
A Rutgers astrophysicist is helping to solve a cosmic puzzle that has astronomers scratching their heads. The mystery centers ...
What can an exploding star in a distant galaxy teach scientists about red supergiants? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of ...