Superluminous supernovas are the brightest stellar explosions in the universe. Astronomers may have found a mechanism that ...
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 brightness far exceeded what standard explosion models could explain. The finding ...
An artist's impression of a magnetar with a wobbly accretion disk. (Joseph Farah and Curtis McCully) A never-before-seen ...