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1 month ago

Astronomers watch the birth of a magnetar for the first time

Astronomers observed the birth of a magnetar, an extremely dense neutron star with the universe's most powerful magnetic fields, through a superluminous supernova's unusual flickering light pattern over 200 days.
fromNature
1 month ago

This supernova is too bright - now astronomers might know why

Superluminous supervnovae are 10 to 100 times brighter than expected, and while different theories exist, no-one is quite sure how that's possible. Now the wobbling signal from one of these super bright explosions has provided a possible answer.
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fromFuturism
2 months ago

Scientists Intrigued as Prominent Star Suddenly Winks Out of Existence

A massive Andromeda star (M31-2014-DS1) brightened, faded, and vanished, consistent with a failed supernova leading to direct collapse into a stellar-mass black hole.
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