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

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

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

An artist's impression of a magnetar with a wobbly accretion disk. (Joseph Farah and Curtis McCully) A never-before-seen 'chirp' in the light of an exploding star has revealed new clues about the ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors—a small, gas-rich galaxy visible to the ...

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