A Mysteriously Bright Supernova Stunned Scientists: Now They Think They Know the Cause ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist's conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk exhibiting Lense-Thirring precession, in this handout image ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s conception of a magnetar beaming out radiation. Astronomers found an extra-bright supernova powered by such an engine.

Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of the effects of general relativity. Some models of magnetars suggest that high-speed jets ...

An artist's conception of a magnetar surrounded by a wobbly accretion disk Joseph Farah and Curtis McCully / Las Cumbres Observatory In December 2024, astronomers witnessed the rare eruption of a ...

About a billion light-years away, an extraordinary stellar explosion lit up in the night sky. The blast, detected December 12, 2024, was some 30 times the brightness of a typical supernova, putting it ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new signal coming from an exploding star — a “chirp” that speeds up over time, similar to the signals seen when black holes collide. The unusual pattern appeared ...

Some of the most extreme explosions in the universe are Type I superluminous supernovae. “They are one of the brightest explosions in the Universe,” says Joseph Farah, an astrophysicist at the ...

A magnetar known to scientists for 17 years might not have come from a supernova, like the rest of its ultra-magnetic brethren. But where did it form, then? The Hubble Space Telescope is on the case.

Artist's conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk exhibiting Lense-Thirring precession, in this handout image released on March 11, 2026. Joseph Farah and Curtis McCully/Handout via ...

As a magnetar spins on its axis at nearly the speed of light, its immense magnetic field contorts, coils and twists to pump out powerful radiation. Energy from this astrophysical engine sets the ...

Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star—and confirmed that it's the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in the ...