Newborn magnetar offers rare evidence of Einstein’s relativity in a stellar explosion
The light did not fade the way it was supposed to. After blazing into view about a billion…
Skipping the supernova: straight from star to black hole
As stars approach the ends of their lives and run out of fuel, their core becomes unstable and…
World’s largest neutrino detector to track supernova blasts
The world’s largest neutrino detector just got even more powerful after scientists successfully deployed six new strings of…
Scientists Identified A Gravitational Wave Detection That Is Nothing Like They Have Ever Seen Before, Sparking Discussion On What Might Have Caused It » TwistedSifter
Unsplash Just a decade ago we had no way to detect gravitational waves from deep in space, but…
Radio telescopes reveal the final years of a rare exploding star
Astronomers have discovered the first radio signals from a unique category of dying stars, called Type Ibn supernovae,…
NASA’s 25-Year Timelapse Shows How a Supernova Remnant Grows
A new NASA timelapse was two and a half decades in the making. What makes the timelapse of…
Dark energy could lead to a ‘Big Crunch’ end for our universe: Study
For nearly three decades, the scientific world has operated under an assumption: the universe is flying apart faster…
JWST detected a supernova from the dawn of the universe
An international team of astronomers, working with researchers from University College Dublin and other institutions, has detected a…
Cosmic blast looked like a kilonova, then turned into a superkilonova mystery
Caltech astronomer Mansi Kasliwal and her colleagues were not expecting to chase a mystery that blurred the line…
“No One Has Considered These Systems the Way We Did”: The Magnetic Power that Created ‘Impossible’ Black Holes
In 2023, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration detected gravitational waves from the largest black hole merger ever recorded, in…
The Webb telescope spots a supernova from 13 billion years ago
The James Webb Space Telescope and other international observatories have spotted a 13-billion-year-old supernova. On Tuesday, the European…
The Webb telescope spots a supernova from 13 billion years ago
The James Webb Space Telescope and other international observatories have spotted a 13-billion-year-old supernova. On Tuesday, the European…