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

Astronomers have identified a newborn magnetar as the power source behind SN 2024afav, a superluminous supernova whose ...

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

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

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 ...

A new study explains how some supernovae are particularly dazzling—the glow from a magnetic, spinning ball of neutrons called ...

Astronomers have identified the first clear evidence of a magnetar forming during a superluminous supernova, offering new insight into some of the brightest explosions in the universe.

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

A cosmic mystery surrounding the universe's most dazzling explosions, superluminous supernovas, appears to have been solved ...

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 ...