A giant explosion that lit up the sky didn't just rock the cosmos – it absolutely rattled our understanding of the Universe's most powerful outbursts. The gamma-ray burst (GRB) recorded on 2 July 2025 ...
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Giant star's mysterious X-rays finally explained after 50 years
An artist's impression of Gamma Cassiopeia. (ESA/Y. Nazé) For 50 years, astronomers have been watching in bafflement as a ...
Key points Astronomers analysed the radio and gamma-ray emission of nearly 200 extremely fast rotating pulsars.Many of these ...
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 ...
Astronomers are trying to understand what caused a series of gamma ray bursts, or GRBs — the most powerful explosions in the universe. These energetic bursts are typically unleashed by the incendiary ...
Artist's rendition of GRB 250702B's ultra-relativistic jet (moving at nearly the speed of light) escaping from its dusty, massive host galaxy. Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel ...
A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary cosmic outburst this July which likely heralds a new kind of stellar ...
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