"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar ...

A double explosion, in which a dying star split, then recombined, may be a long-hypothesized but never-before-seen "superkilonova." ...

A research team led by Caltech may have just discovered the first-ever superkilonova, a cosmic phenomenon in which a star ...

There are a lot of ways for dead stars to blow their tops. Astronomers discovered this explosive diversity when they assessed ...

Scientists explain how rare bright blue cosmic flashes form when black holes tear apart massive stars, based on new observations of the event AT 2024wpp and similar fast blue optical transients ...

An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

How common are Earth-like planets in the universe? When I started working on supernova explosions, I never imagined that my ...

A puzzling cosmic blast detected in both light and gravitational waves may hint at a previously unseen type of explosion, challenging astronomers to rethink how neutron stars are born and collide.

Scientists suggest that black holes tearing apart stars are responsible for the mysterious bright blue cosmic blasts, ruling ...

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