Astronomers have spotted the brightest flare ever detected from a supermassive black hole—a burst of light that, at its peak, was ten trillion times brighter than the sun. The flare was first observed ...

Astronomers have spotted the brightest flare we have ever seen coming from a supermassive black hole. The flare was so powerful it can only have come from a huge star being ripped apart at the centre ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Joint analysis of the GECAM-C and Fermi/GBM observation data on the brightest ever gamma-ray burst (GRB 221009A) reveals the discovery of gamma-ray line up to 37 MeV, the highest-energy gamma-ray line ...

Astronomers have spotted the brightest fast radio burst yet coming from a nearby galaxy. Observations of this phenomenon, a powerful flash of radio waves that lasts only about a millisecond, could ...

Artist’s rendition of the CHIME radio telescope and its 'outriggers' localizing FRB 20250316A. Inset: The host galaxy (NGC 4141) as imaged by the MMT Observatory (PI: Yuxin (Vic) Dong), illustrating ...