Astronomers have captured the longest gamma ray burst ever observed, a seven-hour burst of intense light from a black hole devouring a companion star. The event, called GRB 250702B, lasted about 25,000 seconds, breaking the previous record of 15,000 seconds and forcing scientists to rethink how the most powerful explosions in the universe work. Gamma … Read more
In August 2024, astronaut Rod Prazeres received a mysterious message on Instagram that seemed too good to be true – a “small production company” wanted to license his images for use in an undisclosed sci-fi film. Fun‘ at first – and rightly so – he thought he was being scammed. After all, how many production … Read more
The Chinese Academy of Sciences has created a 35.6 tesla supermagnet, which is more than 700,000 times stronger than the Earth’s magnetic field, capable of working for more than 200 hours while using less energy, and the system has been installed in Beijing as a shared research tool for quantum materials, superconductors, nuclear molecules. China … Read more