Astronomers have linked an X-ray flash discovered by the Einstein Probe to a known type of supernova with unusual features ...

One quadrillion gauss. A one with fifteen zeros behind it. That is the magnetic field strength of a magnetar, and to put it in perspective, Earth’s own field measures about 0.6 gauss. A refrigerator ...

Astronomers studying one of the most magnetic objects in the universe have found some of the strongest evidence yet for a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist's conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of the effects of ...

The curious minds at What If delve into the catastrophic physics and mind-bending consequences of the universe's ultimate ...

Magnetars are a rare type of neutron star with an extremely strong magnetic field, and astronomers have been stumped on how these objects form. New observations of a magnetar 16,000 light-years from ...

Researchers using Murriyang, CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope, have detected unusual radio pulses from a previously dormant star with a powerful magnetic field. The paper, "Linear to circular conversion ...

For the first time, astronomers have definitively spotted a flaring magnetar in another galaxy. These ultra-magnetic stellar corpses were thought to be responsible for some of the highest-energy ...

The universe is so vast that even the closest stars are light-years away. They are so distant that they were long thought to be fixed points in the velvet night. Since we can't yet travel to the stars ...