The longest gamma-ray burst ever recorded did not roar for seconds or even minutes, but for a staggering seven hours, forcing ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have contributed to new insights into the most long-lived cosmic explosion ever recorded. The event was a gamma-ray burst that remained ...

Gamma-ray bursts, powerful glares of high-energy that wash through the Universe once every day or so are, for a brief time, the brightest objects in the gamma-ray sky. ESA’s Integral gamma-ray ...

Stan Woosley, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has won this year’s Bruno Rossi Prize for his pioneering work on supernovae and gamma-ray bursts, the ...

A supercomputer simulation of a mere 10 milliseconds in the collapse of a massive star into a neutron star proves that these catastrophic events, often called hypernovae, can generate the enormous ...

Down here at the bottom of our ocean of air, it’s easy to get complacent about the hazards our universe presents. We feel safe from the dangers of the vacuum of space, where radiation sizzles and ...

"This is certainly an outburst unlike any other we've seen in the past 50 years." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers ...

Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped uncover new clues about the longest-lasting cosmic explosion ever observed, a gamma-ray burst that lasted nearly seven hours.

"It is larger than the size of most anything to which it might be compared." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The universe's ...

Scientists have found a mysterious signal in the brightest gamma ray burst ever detected, and now they know what caused it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

July 25 (UPI) --Scientists have announced a never-before-seen energy peak that resulted from the largest gamma ray burst in history, NASA announced Thursday. The brightest-of-all-time gamma ray burst, ...