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

Astronomers have identified a newborn magnetar as the power source behind SN 2024afav, a superluminous supernova whose ...

Magnetars are some of the most extreme objects in the universe. A special class of neutron stars, they are celestial bodies ...

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

A UC Santa Barbara graduate student alongside a local nonprofit research group have advanced the frontiers of physics while ...

Researchers report superluminous supernova SN 2024afav whose erratic behavior supports a long-standing theory of stellar ...

An artist's impression of a magnetar with a wobbly accretion disk. (Joseph Farah and Curtis McCully) A never-before-seen ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new signal coming from an exploding star — a “chirp” that speeds up over time, similar ...

Researchers say the "powerful engine" behind superluminous exploding stars had been hidden for years — until a "chirp" from the cosmos helped confirm their link.