In December 2024, astronomers watched a star around 25 times the mass of our sun die in a blaze of glory. Located one billion ...

New UNLV-led research is helping to unravel clues to a cosmic mystery that has eluded scientists for decades. Cataclysmic ...

An illustration of two stellar-mass black holes merging in the accretion disk of an active galactic nucleus. (Shu-Rui Zhang) ...

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

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.

Sixteen years ago, theoretical astrophysicists at UC Berkeley and elsewhere proposed that highly magnetized, spinning neutron stars — magnetars — were the power source behind some superluminous ...

Visible to the naked eye in the constellation Cassiopeia, the star γ Cas has puzzled astrophysicists for half a century. It ...

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

Astronomers at the University of Liège have just solved a fifty-year-old stellar mystery! A study of the prototype Be star, γ ...

Their formation has been an object of debate, but new observations confirm the lead hypothesis: they are the product of ...

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