Astronomers Detect Gamma-Ray Burst’s Magnetic Fingerprint
Using NSF’s Very Large Array (VLA), astronomers made the first radio detection of polarized light and Faraday rotation…
The Seven-Hour Mass Explosion That Broke the Rules of the Universe
GRB 250702B emerged from the top edge of its host galaxy’s dark dust lane (see inset). Credit: NASA,…
Astronomers have discovered a collision between two neutron stars in a small galaxy
ⓘ Mikkehouse – Pixabay An artist’s illustration showing a neutron star. Recently, astronomers have discovered a collision between…
What are GRBs? A NASA researcher explains these strange space signals
There are those who like to point out that we know more about space than the ocean ,…
Webb Detects Earliest-Known Supernova Explosion
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a supernova explosion accompanying the gamma-ray burst event…
The Webb telescope spots a supernova from 13 billion years ago
The James Webb Space Telescope and other international observatories have spotted a 13-billion-year-old supernova. On Tuesday, the European…
Watch a black hole fall into a star and then blow up
“We were all still working on Independence Day and writing proposals and trying to point all the telescopes…
Rare black hole-star merger creates the longest gamma-ray burst ever
When space telescopes blazed with high-energy radiation for hours earlier this year, astronomers suspected that they were witnessing…