It was only last October that telescopes spotted a gamma ray burst—caused by the collapse of a black hole —that was so powerful astronomers quickly dubbed it BOAT, for “Brightest of all Time.” That ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA claims astronomers have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the universe. The explosion was so large it carved out a crater in the hot gas that could hold 15 Milky ...
Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped uncover new clues about the longest-lasting cosmic explosion ever observed, a gamma-ray burst that lasted nearly seven hours.