Watch an animation of a black hole shooting jets of particles through a "collapsing star at nearly the speed of light" and ...

In October 2022, a blast of light from deep space outshone anything humanity has ever witnessed. The gamma-ray burst, later named “The BOAT,” unleashed more energy in seconds than our sun will emit in ...

This is the first time an object in its class has been detected in X-rays. The discovery could lead to a better understanding ...

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...

This is the first time an object in its class has been detected in X-rays. The discovery could lead to a better understanding ...

Study reveals that high-energy cosmic rays are born in magnetic fields during neutron star mergers, a prelude to black holes.

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The swarm enables rapid, multi-angle observations of short-lived space phenomena and improves the ability to measure polarisation, which is a key property of gamma-ray bursts that can help reveal how ...

UF engineers, backed by DARPA and NASA, are perfecting laser-forming techniques that let metal sheets fold themselves into ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered deep into one of the Milky Way's most radiation-intense ...

Collaboration has obtained a high-precision cosmic-ray boron spectrum in the energy range of 10 GeV/n–8 TeV/n, and discovered ...

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope, astronomers have discovered that a galaxy cluster is wrapped in an envelope of ...