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'We were amazed': Scientists using James Webb telescope may have discovered the earliest supernova in the known universe

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been produced by the explosion of a massive star just 730 million years after the Big ...
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Strange, 7-hour explosion from deep space is unlike anything scientists have seen — Space photo of the week

A gamma-ray burst (GRB) — the most energetic type of explosion in the universe since the Big Bang — is detected once every day, on average. But what happened on July 2, 2025, was highly unusual: ...
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Repeating gamma-ray bursts are ‘unlike any other’ in 50 years, astronomers say

Astronomers are trying to understand what caused a series of gamma ray bursts, or GRBs — the most powerful explosions in the universe. These energetic bursts are typically unleashed by the incendiary ...
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Astronomers capture an exceptional gamma-ray flare from a blazar

Astronomers have performed very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of a gamma-ray loud blazar known as TXS 2013+370. The observations, posted November 19 on the arXiv preprint server, ...
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Scientists think the mysterious glow in our galaxy could be from dark matter. What that means

At the center of our galaxy, there’s a mysterious, diffuse glow given off by gamma rays — powerful radiation usually emitted by high-energy objects such as rapidly rotating or exploding stars. NASA’s ...