Far from our solar system, brief explosions of electric-blue light are flaring in distant galaxies, outshining entire star systems for a few days before fading back into darkness. These events are so ...

Astronomers call them LFBOTs—rare and powerful bursts of blue light that shine across billions of light-years and then vanish in just a few days. Reading time 3 minutes This composite image features X ...

"It's a fairly unusual question to ask in the scientific world, because most researchers would agree that dark matter is dark, but we have shown that even dark matter that is the darkest kind ...