Brendan O'Connor

Astronomers have directly proven for the first time that a short gamma-ray burst is followed by a prolonged phase of soft X-ray emission. The discovery by the Einstein Probe telescope links gamma-ray bursts with gravitational waves and will allow more precise localization of neutron star and black h

Normally, black holes rip stars apart in the centers of galaxies. A new discovery shows that some black holes lurk in the outskirts. Astronomers spotted a flare tens of thousands of light-years from the center of a large galaxy. A computer algorithm trained on similar events helped identify it. Soon