Astronomers have identified the birth of a magnetar, a hyper-magnetized neutron star, by detecting a subtle warping of space-time predicted by Einstein’s general relativity. The discovery came from ...

The findings confirm a theory first proposed 16 years ago by University of California, Berkeley theoretical astrophysicist ...

Superluminous supernovas are the brightest stellar explosions in the universe. Astronomers may have found a mechanism that ...

Astronomers have identified a newborn magnetar as the power source behind SN 2024afav, a superluminous supernova whose brightness far exceeded what standard explosion models could explain. The finding ...

Astronomers have identified the first clear evidence of a magnetar forming during a superluminous supernova, offering new insight into some of the brightest explosions in the universe.

The discovery of a newborn magnetar inside a distant supernova helps explain why some stellar explosions shine far brighter ...

The light did not fade the way it was supposed to. After blazing into view about a billion light-years from Earth, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the outskirts of the Milky Way, one of the rarest kinds of stars in the galaxy has just become even more mysterious than it was ...

A new study explains how some supernovae are particularly dazzling—the glow from a magnetic, spinning ball of neutrons called a magnetar. An assist from Einstein is what settled the case ...

Gamma rays are a broad category of high-energy photons, including everything with more energy than an X-ray. While they are often created by processes like radioactive decay, few astronomical events ...