Recent observations by NASA’s X-ray telescopes have provided unprecedented insights into fast radio bursts (FRBs), powerful and brief cosmic events that have puzzled astronomers. By…
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Researchers discovered a universal scaling law in neutron stars, including magnetars, that might explain mysterious Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). By studying the sub-structure of their…
An artist’s impression of a magnetar eruption. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center The sudden slowdown of a star in 2020 provides an opportunity to…
This artist’s impression shows a magnetar in the star cluster Westerlund 1. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada According to a new study the X-ray light emitted by…
Researchers have simulated and presented a low-cost experiment to produce and study the early phases of this process in ways that were previously considered to…
Artist’s conception of a neutron star with an ultra-strong magnetic field, called a magnetar, emitting radio waves (red). Magnetars are a leading candidate for what…
Credit: RUVID An international scientific group with outstanding Valencian participation has managed to measure for the first time oscillations in the brightness of a neutron…
The magnetar was localized to the central part (red box) of NGC 253, a bright galaxy located about 11.4 million light years from Earth. This…
Artist’s depiction of a magnetar. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada Astronomers recently found the fastest spinning and possibly the youngest magnetar yet. J1818.0-1607 is located about 21,000…
Artist’s depiction of a magnetar. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada Astronomers have recently found the fastest spinning and possibly the youngest magnetar known. This object, known as…
A neutron star (left) and its massive, companion star (right). The research team suggests that the neutron star at the heart of LS 5039 has…
On May 24, four European telescopes took part in the global effort to understand mysterious cosmic flashes. The telescopes captured flashes of radio waves from…
Magnetar-Powered Kilonova Blast. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Player (STScI) Neutron-Star Collision Releases Puzzling Burst of Infrared Light In our infinite universe, stars can go…
A powerful X-ray burst erupts from a magnetar – a supermagnetized version of a stellar remnant known as a neutron star – in this illustration.…
Artist’s impression of a magnetar in outburst, showing complex magnetic field structure and beamed emission, here imagined as following a crust cracking episode. Credit: McGill…
Artist’s depiction of a magnetar. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada A University of Colorado at Boulder astrophysicist is searching the light coming from a distant, and extremely…
Artist’s impression of SGR 1935+2154, a highly magnetised stellar remnant, also known as a magnetar. Discovered in 2014 in the constellation of Vulpecula following a…