An animation of the moment NASA spotted a black hole ripping a star apart and the subsequent explosion helps shed light on ...

A gamma-ray burst of a dying star could be the most distant object yet seen in the universe, astronomers say. The exploded star GRB 090429B is 13.14 billion light-years away.

The explosion blasts the material off the surface and away, into space. It took 1300 years for the light from the dwarf nova, as it’s called, to reach the Earth, arriving in 1901.

Light from a star that exploded 13 billion years ago hasbeen detected, becoming the most distant object in the universe ever observed. The light from the distant explosion, called a gamma-rayburst ...

Chief among them: scalability. “There is an absolute explosion in animation now,” says Pixar president Jim Morris. And with that explosion comes competition.