Astronomers are reporting a highly complex and potentially groundbreaking cosmic event that may be the first-ever observed "superkilonova," an ultra-powerful explosion produced by two closely timed ...

A strange flash in a distant galaxy first looked like a familiar kind of stellar wreckage, the radioactive afterglow of colliding neutron stars known as a kilonova. Then it brightened again, shifted ...

In a strange turn of events, a supernova birthed twin baby neutron stars that merged to make a powerful kilonova. Reading time 3 minutes When massive stars die, they go out in fiery explosions called ...

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