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 ...

On March 20, 2026, Earth will experience the March Equinox, when day and night nearly balance worldwide as the Sun aligns directly above the equator. Earth is tilted at about 23.5 degrees, but during ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some of the most extreme explosions in the universe are Type I superluminous supernovae. “They are one of the brightest ...

Researchers found a magnetic star core acting as a high speed engine to power a record breaking luminous supernova.

Astronomers have for the very first time watched the birth of a magnetar comprising the mass of 500,000 Earths squeezed ...

Over time, the disk gradually falls inward toward the magnetar. Closer to the star, the frame-dragging effect becomes stronger, and the disk wobbles faster. This is why the bumps in brightness occur ...

Aston University lecturer, Dr Sayantan Biswas, delved into why diagnostic challenges remain despite advances in technology at ...

For decades, astronomers have used distant supernovae as cosmic lighthouses to test fundamental physics and to measure the ...