The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory captured the afterglow of a gamma-ray burst on October 9. The bright rings are X-rays scattered by dust layers within our galaxy.

“When you see bright light in optical, X-rays, and radio wavelengths, a lot of things can be ruled out, leaving the conclusion these can only be explained as close black holes.

The Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 revealed the infrared afterglow (circled) of the gamma ray burst and its host galaxy, seen nearly edge-on as a sliver of light extending to upper ...

Gamma-ray bursts, or GRBs, are intense blasts of gamma rays—the highest-energy form of light—that typically last from a fraction of a second to a few minutes in length.

The dust responsible for the rings has also scattered a particular kind of X-ray light from the early stages of the blast. These so-called “soft” X-rays – with energies of between 0.3 and 10 keV – ...

There's a ton of bizarrely-bright light shooting out of the Sun, scientists say — and it's been happening for years, right under our noses. Astronomers out of Michigan State University have not ...

Space Astronomers have spotted inexplicably bright light coming from the sun. Extraordinarily high-energy gamma rays have been found emanating from the sun, and none of our theoretical models can ...

After observing gamma rays coming from the sun for six years, researchers at the HAWC observatory in Mexico have found an excess of very high-energy gamma rays emerging as a result of the ...