Scientists have discovered the most powerful blasts of energy in the known universe. Dubbed extreme nuclear transients, or ...

Extreme nuclear transients are 10 million times rarer than supernovae and emit the same amount of energy as 100 Suns.

At such a distance, its energy, which has been traveling ... of a large star that dies in a supernova explosion," notes NASA. Want more science and tech news delivered straight to your inbox?

Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi's Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have discovered the most energetic cosmic ...

(credit: NASA) Rather, this one has lasted far longer and as a result, yields far more energy. To put the sheer scale of this explosion, consider two other cosmic metrics. A supernova is ...

Further research showed that there actually was an explosion, and the big boom is now considered to be the largest ever documented by science. According to NASA, the amount of energy involved in ...

When the conversion of explosion energy to emitted energy ... Urata from the National Central University in Taiwan and MITOS Science CO., LTD and Professor Kenji Toma from Tohoku University's ...