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 »
If you were attacked by a greedy vampire star or risked falling into two dueling black holes, you’d probably run away too! One of these terrifying scenarios is likely responsible for sending a low-mass star across the Milky Way at a staggering million miles per hour (1.6 million kilometers per hour). This is approximately 1,500… Read More »
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists have finally unraveled the mysterious origins of “BOAT,” possibly the largest cosmic explosion since the Big Bang. The brightest gamma-ray burst of all time (hence the acronym Brightest of All Time), a.k.a. BOAT, appears to have been launched by a supernova explosion accompanying the death and collapse… Read More »
Astronomers have discovered a stellar “missing link” that directly links the death of a massive star to the birth of a black hole or a neutron star. Two teams of scientists made the discovery using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the New Technology Telescope (NTT) to look at the supernova debris discovered in May… Read More »