For nearly a decade, some of the most dramatic explosions in the universe have been hiding in plain sight as brief, bright ...

A strange, ultra-bright flash in a distant galaxy has given astronomers their strongest hint yet that a new class of stellar catastrophe exists. The event, tagged ZTF25abjmnps and also known as ...

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