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

A new study explains how some supernovae are particularly dazzling—the glow from a magnetic, spinning ball of neutrons called a magnetar. An assist from Einstein is what settled the case ...

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

An artist's impression of a magnetar with a wobbly accretion disk. (Joseph Farah and Curtis McCully) A never-before-seen 'chirp' in the light of an exploding star has revealed new clues about the ...

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

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

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

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

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

A rare gravitationally lensed supernova called SN 2025wny appears in five separate images due to the gravity of two ...

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 ...