Gravitational wave observatories have been studying black holes that are in the right range to be the source of these LFBOTs.

It turns out we can also move vast bands of radiation and make them into a barrier around our planet, even though we had no ...

Sunlight looks smooth and white to the naked eye, but when I break it apart with a prism or a spectrograph, it turns out to ...

At the heart of every atomic nucleus, the strong interaction quietly dictates the structure of matter, yet for decades one of ...

It was a Christmas morning like no other, that mid-pandemic day in 2021. True, there were the usual living-room delights: the ...

A new study, appearing in The Astrophysical Journal and based on observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, ...

Prof. An Tao from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a novel ...

Using naturally occurring muons, researchers are embarking on a non-invasive quest to scan the interior of El Castillo.

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar ...

Among the more puzzling cosmic phenomena discovered over the past few decades are brief and very bright flashes of blue and ...

Astronomers call them LFBOTs—rare and powerful bursts of blue light that shine across billions of light-years and then vanish ...

Data collected using multiple NSF NOIRLab facilities reveal a gamma-ray burst that lasted more than seven hours and ...