Gamma-ray bursts are the most powerful explosions in the cosmos.

Happiness rises like a bubble, but soon bursts and falls.

So when the foaming river, uncontrolled, / bursts through its banks and riots on the plain, / o'er dyke and dam the gathering deluge rolled, / from field to field sweeps on with cattle, flock and fold.

Tom has periods of debilitating depression followed by bursts of manic activity.

Called fast radio bursts (FRBs), these extraordinary events generate as much energy in a thousandth of a second as the Sun does in a year.

As when in mighty multitudes bursts out / sedition, and the wrathful rabble rave; / rage finds them arms; stones, firebrands fly about.

What if the hot-water bottle bursts?

Yanni's violent bursts are forecasting doom.

Gamma ray bursts are so intense that if such an event occurred "close" to the Earth, causing a beam to fire directly at our planet, the radiation and particles could do harm.

There are several current theories about the possible causes of gamma-ray bursts.