Observing the Universe often means contemplating phenomena that occurred millions of years ago. But sometimes, the ...

An unusually bright gamma-ray burst produced a jet that emerged at nearly the speed of light. An unusually bright gamma-ray burst produced a jet that emerged at nearly the speed of light.

Astronomers have found evidence of the most powerful explosion in the universe. Using data from ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray space telescopes, the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) in ...

Astronomers have just detected the biggest explosion in the Universe ever recorded. The only explosion that comes close to this explosion is the Big Bang. In a distant galaxy, about 390 million ...

A record-breaking explosion created by a black hole 390 million light-years away has been discovered by astronomers. "In some ways, this blast is similar to how the eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980 ...

Astronomers have spotted a cosmic blast that dwarfs all others. A gargantuan explosion tore through the heart of a distant galaxy cluster, releasing about five times more energy than the previous ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have ...

Light coming from an explosion in the early universe has illuminated a black hole that astronomers think could expand their understanding of how the celestial objects form. Three billion years ago, a ...

The biggest known explosion in the universe has been spotted by astronomers — and it was so intense it punched a crater the size of 15 Milky Way galaxies into a part of space hundreds of millions of ...