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In October 2022, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, whose mission operations center is located at Penn State, detected the brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded. Now, follow-up studies have described this extraordinary cosmic explosion.
The Pan-STARRS telescope atop Haleakalā on Maui has collected data that is now being released as the largest catalog of exploding stars. The data from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy’s Pan-STARRS telescope contains three years of research and is now publicly available via the Young Supernova Experiment.
The project, which began in 2019, surveyed more than 1,500 square degrees of sky every three days, and discovered thousands of new cosmic explosions.
Astronomers discovered light jetting out from a tidal disruption event, where a supermassive black hole swallowed a star. The beam of visible light is heading towards the Earth.
A supermassive black hole swallowed up a star, ripping it apart, and uniquely expelled a beam of light from its center. In a scientific research report published on Wednesday, astronomers say a previously unknown black hole was made known to...