Over the past decade, thousands of such gamma-ray bursts have been detected ... and others have investigated this explosion using a slew of ground-based and space-based telescopes, including ...

The recent detection of a cosmic explosion by the Einstein Probe is stirring excitement among space watchers everywhere.

On March 15, 2024, a space-based observatory detected bursts of low-energy X-rays from deep in the ancient universe, ...

Follow-up observations from the Gemini-North telescope on Hawaii Island and the Very Large Telescope in Chile returned ...

Where are the particles responsible for the emission of gamma rays accelerated ... same black hole erupt with a powerful and unexpected explosion. Scientists hope that by studying this emission ...

Einstein Probe's Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT) detected a burst of low-energy X-rays. Astronomers call such X-rays "soft," ...

The Einstein Probe detected a 17-minute soft X-ray burst from 12.5 billion light-years away, challenging gamma-ray burst ...

Gamma-ray bursts typically emit as much energy in a few seconds as an entire galaxy of stars will emit in years. Think about this: a single sudden explosion, which becomes as bright as the ...

The first black hole ever photographed is still surprising researchers. Immortalized by the Event Horizon Telescope in 2019, M87* , was recently spotted emitting a massive gamma-ray flare. Studying it ...