A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary ...

The cosmos has served up a gift for a group of scientists who have been searching for one of the most elusive phenomena in ...

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A strange X-ray signal spotted decades ago may be the result of a star that got attacked by two black holes, one after the ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

A never-before-seen blast from a supermassive black hole was spotted by two sophisticated X-ray space telescopes. This giant ...

Astronomers have spotted the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen, a cosmic explosion that lasted seven hours — and they ...

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