New research suggests that the largest cosmic structure is even bigger and closer to Earth than we knew. It goes against ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- An international team of astronomers has observed extremely rapid bursts of high-energy gamma rays from a distant galaxy, an observation that is challenging how astronomers ...

"The gamma-ray burst traveled through intergalactic space at the speed of light for eleven billion years, during which time the Sun and the planets were born." — Timothy Ferris, in the film ...

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The origin and the central engine of GRBs have long been pending for identification. Now a joint observation by LEIA and ...

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WR 104's primary star is known as a Wolf-Rayet, a type of uber-hot and extraordinarily ... opening the possibility that the gamma ray burst it would unleash upon exploding could barrage our ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic events ever observed in the universe. These powerful outbursts can shine a quintillion (10 18) times brighter than the sun. Since they were first ...

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Before this research, scientists didn't recognize that some nearby gamma-ray bursts are also part of this massive structure. The finding is extraordinary because the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great ...