Every star’s death is dramatic. Superluminous supernovae take the theatrics to another level. In the early 2000s, scientists ...

Some of the most extreme explosions in the universe are Type I superluminous supernovae. “They are one of the brightest ...

An artist's impression of a magnetar with a wobbly accretion disk. (Joseph Farah and Curtis McCully) A never-before-seen ...

Researchers found a magnetic star core acting as a high speed engine to power a record breaking luminous supernova.

When a star explodes, it sends high-energy particles out in all directions. This burst of energy can travel through space for thousands of light-years, traversing solar systems and even galaxies. The ...

In December 2024, astronomers watched a star around 25 times the mass of our sun die in a blaze of glory. Located one billion ...

The discovery of a newborn magnetar inside a distant supernova helps explain why some stellar explosions shine far brighter ...

Supernovae, the explosive deaths of stars, are some of the universe's biggest bursts of energy and light. When they erupt, one supernova can shine even brighter than an entire galaxy. It's a fitting ...

It’s easy to forget that stars, just like us, have lifetimes. They’re born, they live, and eventually, they die. And for some stars, their death is dramatic, producing an explosion so powerful it can ...

A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, working with a colleague from Université Paris-Saclay, has found evidence that suggests supernovae and their progenitors may have ...