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NASA telescope may have found antimatter annihilated in possibly the biggest explosion since the Big Bang

When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. A jet of particles ejected from a dying star at speeds close to the speed of light. When such a jet is directed at us, we see a gamma-ray burst. | Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s Conceptual Imaging… Read More »

The universe’s biggest explosions created some of the elements that make up us. But there’s another mysterious source out there

Giant gamma-ray flare from ‘recently deceased’ magnetar lights up Cigar Galaxy

Astronomers believe they have found a rare, massive flare erupting from a highly magnetic dead star, or magnetar, bright enough to illuminate the entire galaxy. If true, the discovery would represent the first sighting of gamma rays from a “recently deceased” neutron star that exploded outside the Milky Way. The flare was first detected by… Read More »