A dozen luminous blue outbursts were thought to be unusual supernovae. A new outburst, the brightest yet, suggests it's ...

Astronomers analyzing data from an array of telescopes — including the W. M. Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea on the Big ...

A record-bright LFBOT exposes violent encounters between black holes and stars, helping astronomers understand extreme black ...

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar ...

Astronomers call them LFBOTs—rare and powerful bursts of blue light that shine across billions of light-years and then vanish ...

For nearly a decade, some of the most dramatic explosions in the universe have been hiding in plain sight as brief, bright ...

An international team of astronomers has, for the first time, successfully probed the early universe. An international group of astronomers has reached a new milestone in studying the early universe.

Among the more puzzling cosmic phenomena discovered over the past few decades are brief and very bright flashes of blue and ...

The research team behind a new paper published Wednesday in Nature said the flashes in the luminous fast blue optical transient, or LFBOT, are just as powerful as the initial explosion, which has not ...

The phenomenon, known as luminous fast blue optical transients or LFBOTs, comes in the form of short, bright flashes of light ...

The Hubble Space Telescope recently observed something strange: an extremely bright, extremely fast flash of light that popped up in the middle of nowhere. Technically known as a Luminous Fast Blue ...