Was a powerful cosmic explosion seen by the Einstein Probe launched by a supermassive black hole snacking on a star, by a ...

Gamma ray bursts are the most energetic events in the universe. What if one hit Earth?

The earth's atmosphere blocks most gamma rays from space, so gamma-ray astronomy was not possible until astronomers put gamma-ray detecting telescopes into space. Astronomers were at first ...

Where are the particles responsible for the emission of gamma rays accelerated ... in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. In 2018, it was revealed that a pioneering telescope the size of ...

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

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the greater mysteries facing astronomers today, rivaled only by gravitational waves (GWs) ...

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

The long-awaited detection of gravitational waves has opened up a whole new world of astronomy ... such as a black hole merger or a gamma-ray burst. We'll need new equipment to detect such ...

China Einstein Probe EP astronomical satellite has for the first time in human history detected soft X-ray signals from an ...

The highly energetic explosion was initially attributed to a burst of gamma rays emitted either by the collision of two neutron stars or from the death of a massive star. Soon, however ...