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

151,279 A Tour of the Biggest Explosion Ever Seen in the Universe The biggest explosion seen in the universe has been found. This record-breaking, gargantuan eruption came from a black hole in a ...

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.

An international team of US and UK astronomers have spotted the most distance explosion, and possibly the most distant object, ever seen in the universe, according to a new paper to appear in the ...

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 has been detected, becoming the most distant object in the universe ever observed. The light from the distant explosion, called a gamma-ray ...