Highly energetic explosions in the sky are commonly attributed to gamma-ray bursts. We now understand that these bursts originate from either the merger of two neutron stars or the collapse of a ...

These events are known as fast X-ray transients (FXRT), and the newly spotted blast has been designated EP240315a. After monitoring the burst at radio wavelengths for a period of three months ...

This gamma-ray burst has come from two billion light-years away, which means it occurred two billion years ago. Published today in the journal Nature Communications, a new paper reveals that on ...

"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 ...

China has detected a gamma-ray burst, designated as EP240315a, that originated approximately 12.5 billion light years away using its Einstein Probe (EP) astronomical satellite, also known as the ...