Artist's conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk exhibiting Lense-Thirring precession, in this handout image released on March 11, 2026. Joseph Farah and Curtis McCully/Handout via ...
Astronomers have identified a newborn magnetar as the power source behind SN 2024afav, a superluminous supernova whose brightness far exceeded what standard explosion models could explain. The finding ...
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 exhibiting Lense-Thirring precession, in this handout image ...
WASHINGTON — A supernova — the explosion marking the end of a massive star's life — is one of the brightest cosmic events, usually about a billion times more luminous than the sun. But some — a small ...