Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have contributed to new insights into the most long-lived cosmic explosion ever recorded. The event was a gamma-ray burst that remained ...

Scientists may have to rethink their playbook for studying gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful known cosmic explosions, after a blast detected in July set a new record by firing energetic jets for ...

Astronomers have spotted the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen, a cosmic explosion that lasted seven hours — and they determined it could be the work of a black hole destroying a star. Gamma-ray ...

NASA says that a stellar-mass black hole tore a star apart which created an unusually long-lasting gamma ray burst that has been identified as "GRB 250702B." AccuWeather's Emilee Speck has the story.