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The solar system was hit with a gamma-ray burst so bright, it blinded scientists' equipment in space
One astronomer dubbed the high-intensity beam of radiation the BOAT: the Brightest of All Time.
Chris Panella,Jessica Orwig
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An explosion 4 billion light years from Earth released more energy than the Sun can generate in its entire lifespan
Four billion light years away from Earth, there was an explosion so big that it generated more en…
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Fast radio bursts were once thought to be alien broadcasts. New research suggests the mysterious signals come from dead stars.
Magnetars are the super dense remains of dead stars. Their explosions of X-rays and gamma rays some…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A new simulation reveals what dark matter might look like if we could see it: massive halos surrounding every galaxy in the universe
A new simulation shows that dark matter haloes look the same, whether Earth-sized or many billions …
Susie Neilson
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Astronomers Spot The Brightest Gamma-Ray Burst Ever Seen But Can't Explain It
"The really cool thing about this GRB is that because the exploding matter was traveling at [nearly…
Denise Chow
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Scientists detected the brightest light in the universe for the first time, following a mysterious explosion in space
"It turns out we were missing approximately half of their energy budget until now," Konstancja Sata…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Scientists detected ripples in space and time from a potentially new class of collision in the universe. Their observatory cracked a 100-year-old mystery posed by Einstein.
It goes like this: As neutron stars move toward each other, a tiny bit of their material gets shot …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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This is the most profound explanation I've heard of what it means to detect gravitational waves
"We're humans, we're curious, and on a quest to understand such weird things that are a big part of…
Dave Mosher
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NASA has detected a burst of light that might be linked to one of the most monumental space discoveries ever made
LIGO is just one key way scientists hope to hunt for gravitational waves. It currently consists of …
Ali Sundermier
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Scientists Are Closer Than Ever To Solving A 100-Year-Old Mystery About Cosmic Rays
The origin of cosmic rays, and what could be accelerating the particles in them, has been a mystery…
Dina Spector
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Nasa astronomers says signal coming from outside our galaxy is 'unexpected and as yet unexplained'
Astronomers who were looking into the creation of the universe detected an alternative signal using…
Polly Thompson
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NASA telescope discovers mysterious hotspot of high-energy particles beyond our galaxy
Gamma rays and ultra-high-energy cosmic rays are filling a huge area of the sky. An astronomer call…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Neutron star collision can annihilate Earth’s ozone layer, leaving it devoid of life for thousands of years
Very recently, a team of scientists decided to explore the hypothetical possibility of such a kilon…
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NASA's James Webb telescope spotted two stars crashing into each other so violently it could have created gold in space
The James Webb Space Telescope detected a cosmic phenomenon known as a kilonova, which can create g…
Marianne Guenot
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NASA telescope images reveal brightest explosion ever recorded, as a star collapses into a black hole
Astronomers think the powerful gamma-ray burst comes from a supernova: the collapse of a dying star…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA scientists created 21 new constellations for the invisible night sky - including Albert Einstein, Godzilla, and Starship Enterprise
What we see is only a rainbow of visible light: a limited slice of the electromagnetic spectrum, an…
Dave Mosher
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The black hole at the center of our galaxy just belched two giant bubbles of radiation
Hints of the structures first emerged in the 1980s, when astronomer and physicist Farhad Yusef-Zade…
Michelle Starr
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Planet 9, our solar system's mysterious missing world, could be an ancient black hole orbiting the sun, a new paper suggests
The scientists behind the new study say that direct observations of the mysterious object - if ast…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A field of water tanks in Mexico is bringing us closer than ever to solving a 100-year-old cosmic mystery
Scientists found another source in the remnants of a supernova in our own galaxy. When a massive st…
Ali Sundermier
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NASA Just Spotted A Super-Bright Explosion In The Galaxy Next Door
Until they fully analyze the data, we can't know for sure that this is a gamma ray burst. Some have…