The leading theories involve stars being ripped apart by black holes or the merger of neutron stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Powerful bright blue cosmic explosions called Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients could be caused when a black hole or neutron star slams into the universe's hottest class of star.

(CN) — In a study published in Nature on Wednesday, dozens of scientists from around the world propose a ghostly explanation for mysterious blue-tinted light bursts in deep space. The ...

Presently, LFBOTs are detected once per year, as per NASA. An extraordinarily bright explosion detected in an unexpected place by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has scientists confused. According to a ...

What is hundreds of billions of times more powerful than the Sun, flashes on repeat with intense bursts of light, and verges on defying the laws of physics? No, it’s not your neighbors’ holiday lights ...

In an unexpected turn of events, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a peculiar burst of extraordinarily intense light in an unexpected place, far away from any host galaxy. The phenomenon is ...