The brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB ... to investigate the historic burst—GRB 221009A, dubbed the BOAT, or "brightest of all time"—to investigate whether the explosion, or supernova, could be a ...

A sudden, record-breaking gamma-ray burst lit up the cosmos—leaving scientists stunned and searching for answers. the powerful flash, brighter than anything seen before, could change what we know ...

The largest explosion NASA has seen since the Big Bang occurred just now, but it began ages ago. It could possibly harm the ...

An international team of astronomers has observed extremely rapid bursts of high-energy gamma rays ... time of about one hour, the flux increased above the relatively quiescent value by more than a ...

A typical gamma ray burst lasting seconds or minutes produces about the same energy as our sun does over the course of its entire multi-billion-year lifecycle. Gamma-ray bursts are some of the ...

"The gamma-ray burst ... time the Sun and the planets were born." — Timothy Ferris, in the film version of Seeing in the Dark. The Sun produces enough energy in one second to supply all the ...

The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, is dwarfed by the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall. In fact, the team ...

Illustration of the Insight-HXMT and GECAM-C observations of the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB 221009A). News organizations may use or redistribute this image, with proper attribution ...

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Vol. 118, No. 840, February 2006 The Automatic Real‐Time Gamma‐Ray Burst ... The Automatic Real‐Time Gamma‐Ray Burst Pipeline of the 2 m ...