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

Far from our solar system, brief explosions of electric-blue light are flaring in distant galaxies, outshining entire star ...

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

Blue flashes form in the same way as green flashes. However, the former is harder to spot because air molecules and aerosols scatter blue light, according to Spaceweather.com. When the atmosphere is ...

Gravitational wave observatories have been studying black holes that are in the right range to be the source of these LFBOTs. So far, though, no black hole collision has been seen with light-based ...

For nearly a decade, some of the most dramatic explosions in the universe have been hiding in plain sight as brief, bright flashes of blue light. New observations now suggest these outbursts are not ...