You've heard of how mighty supernovas are, or of the ungodly amounts of energy released by gamma ray bursts. But astronomers have just discovered a type of cosmic blast that puts all those to ...

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The explosions those scientists have recorded, which happened when those black holes shredded and sucked up the fabric of those stars, are the largest since the big bang that created the universe.

Astronomers detect most powerful explosions since Big Bang 'Extreme nuclear transients' are 10 million times rarer than a standard supernova. Andrew Paul Jun 4, 2025 3:39 PM EDT ...

This giant disk galaxy existed within the first two billion years after the Big Bang, meaning it formed when the universe was just 15% of its current age. It challenges what we know about how ...