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An artist's conception of a magnetar surrounded by a wobbly accretion disk Joseph Farah and Curtis McCully / Las Cumbres Observatory In December 2024, astronomers witnessed the rare eruption of a ...

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Artist’s conception of a magnetar surrounded by an accretion disk that is wobbling, or precessing, because of the effects of general relativity. Some models of magnetars suggest that high-speed jets ...

This is a historic observation: the live birth of a magnetar, a type of neutron star possessing an exceptionally powerful ...

Even if early Earth had water and oxygen, the planet would still have needed another ingredient for life to flourish: heavy metals. Our cellphones, Earth’s core and even human metabolism would ...

For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the birth of one of the universe's most powerful magnets, or magnetars, at the heart of an unusually bright supernova, thanks to an effect first ...