Scientists have long been aware of the massive elliptical galaxy, M87. The galaxy was first observed in the late 18th century ...

New data on the gamma-ray burst "GRB 221009A", observed in October 2022, confirm theoretical models suggesting that these bursts of exceptionally intense electromagnetic waves generate ...

The Event Horizon Telescope, which captured the first image of a black hole, has done it again. The Earth-sized telescope ...

A Northwestern-led team of astronomers reached for the stars with a recently compiled gamma-ray galaxy database. The public database, known as BRIGHT, or the Broad-band Repository for Investigating ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the brightest explosions in the universe. In just a few seconds, they can outshine all the stars ...

Integral’s latest survey of the gamma-ray universe continues to change the way astronomers think of the high-energy cosmos. With over seventy percent of the sky now observed by Integral, astronomers ...

In a bizarre gamma-ray space explosion whose light reached Earth in 2023, a team led by astronomer Run-Chao Chen of Nanjing ...

The advent of new radio surveys as the VLA Sky Survey (VLASS) and Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS), realized with the latest generation radio telescopes, is opening new opportunities for the study ...

The Cherenkov Telescope Array will combine experimental and observatory-style approaches to investigate the universe’s highest energies. They permeate the cosmos, whizzing through galaxies and solar ...

There is a gamma-ray lighthouse shining from the edge of our universe. Astronomers have discovered it using ESA’s orbiting gamma-ray observatory, Integral. Now, they must work hard to understand it.