Gamma rays are a broad category of high-energy photons, including everything with more energy than an X-ray. While they are often created by processes like radioactive decay, few astronomical events ...

On the outskirts of the Milky Way, one of the rarest kinds of stars in the galaxy has just become even more mysterious than it was before. Astronomers have used the Hubble and Gaia telescopes to study ...

In 2013, astronomers announced they had discovered a magnetar exceptionally close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way using a suite of space-borne telescopes including NASA’s ...

In the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, there is a supermassive black hole feeding on nearby stars. It's called ...

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Observations and stellar evolution models of a hot, helium-rich Wolf-Rayet star indicate that it will produce a magnetar when it explodes as a supernova, according to a new study. The findings provide ...

Astronomers using data from several X-ray satellites have caught a magnetar -- the remnant of a massive star with an incredibly strong magnetic field -- in a sort of giant cosmic belch. Astronomers ...

Astronomers have discovered a new kind of star, and with it, a new clue to an old mystery: how magnetars form. The discovery is related to a peculiar star in a binary system some 3,000 light-years ...

Right now, astronomers are viewing a ball of hot gas billions of light years away that is radiating the energy of hundreds of billions of suns. At its heart is an object a little larger than 10 miles ...

The universe is so vast that even the closest stars are light-years away. They are so distant that they were long thought to be fixed points in the velvet night. Since we can't yet travel to the stars ...

We asked you for your questions on the story. Here are a few of them, along with our responses. How is it that so few people have heard of Magnetar? Magnetar operated in what many call the "shadow ...