We have retold 2 papers by this author. 1 of them with a full read. most often about: gamma-ray burst, fast radio burst, microlensing. 30 co-authors across our retellings.
Twenty-eight seconds: that's how long it took for an automated camera to lock onto a flash in a constellation whose light had traveled for more than nine billion years.
Far away in the constellation Cancer, 3.5 billion light-years from Earth, a pendulum clock is ticking. The pendulum is a secondary black hole orbiting a much more massive primary.