SYFY WIRE Explore The LatestMoviesTVGamesComicsInterviewsBad Astronomy All Posts Tagged gamma-ray burst Some orphan gamma-ray bursts actually live in tiny faint galaxies Don’t you hate it when colliding neutron stars outshine their tiny dim host galaxies? By Phil Plait | 5 months ago One of the Universe’s most powerful explosions tried to disguise itself Terrifying gamma-ray burst looked like a different kind of terrifying gamma-ray burst. By Phil Plait | 6 months ago Wait... was that a ginormous burst of cosmic energy or just space junk? By Elizabeth Rayne | 1 year ago The birth of a little black hole may have revealed a much bigger black hole By Phil Plait | 1 year ago The Midnight Sky's apocalyptic disaster has us wondering: What cosmic threats are out there? By Cassidy Ward | 2 years ago Did astronomers just witness the explosive birth of a magnetar? By Phil Plait | 2 years ago Astronomers nab the farthest visible explosion from a neutron star collision ever seen By Phil Plait | 2 years ago Two gamma-ray bursts emit highest energy photons ever seen from GRBs By Phil Plait | 3 years ago When the first stars in the Universe exploded, they *really* exploded By Phil Plait | 3 years ago Is this cosmic sprinkler surrounding galaxy’s next gamma-ray burst? By Phil Plait | 4 years ago Load More
Some orphan gamma-ray bursts actually live in tiny faint galaxies Don’t you hate it when colliding neutron stars outshine their tiny dim host galaxies? By Phil Plait | 5 months ago
One of the Universe’s most powerful explosions tried to disguise itself Terrifying gamma-ray burst looked like a different kind of terrifying gamma-ray burst. By Phil Plait | 6 months ago
Wait... was that a ginormous burst of cosmic energy or just space junk? By Elizabeth Rayne | 1 year ago
The birth of a little black hole may have revealed a much bigger black hole By Phil Plait | 1 year ago
The Midnight Sky's apocalyptic disaster has us wondering: What cosmic threats are out there? By Cassidy Ward | 2 years ago
Astronomers nab the farthest visible explosion from a neutron star collision ever seen By Phil Plait | 2 years ago