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 ...

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

An artist's impression of a magnetar with a wobbly accretion disk. (Joseph Farah and Curtis McCully) A never-before-seen ...

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.

When most people think of a supernova, they're thinking of a Type II core-collapse supernova. These are massive stars that ...

Researchers say the "powerful engine" behind superluminous exploding stars had been hidden for years — until a "chirp" from the cosmos helped confirm their link.

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

One of the largest known stars in the cosmos is poised for catastrophe. After witnessing the massive object undergo a dramatic transformation, a team of astronomers say the star is on the verge of ...

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Some of the most spectacular images ever captured by the Hubble Space Telescope reveal the violent remains of exploding stars ...

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