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

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

New research suggests that the highly magnetized remnants of stars are responsible for powering some of the universe’s most brilliant supernova explosions ...

The newborn magnetar, a specific kind of neutron star, actually enhances the brightness of a supernova.

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

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 ...

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

Astronomers have discovered that the birth of neutron stars with magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than Earth's magnetosphere is the "magic trick" behind superbright supernovas.

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 confirmed that a superluminous supernova observed in 2024 was the birth of a magnetar. Researchers have proposed an explanation based on general relativistic for the luminosity of the ...