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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 light-years from Earth, the supernova known as SN 2024afav settled into something stranger. Its brightness ...

For the first time, astronomers witnessed the birth of a ‘magnetar’

In December 2024, astronomers watched a star around 25 times the mass of our sun die in a blaze of glory. Located one billion light-years from Earth, SN 2024afav was a prime example of a superluminous ...
Nanowerk

Researcher bridges the worlds of general relativity and supernova astrophysics

Researchers report superluminous supernova SN 2024afav whose erratic behavior supports a long-standing theory of stellar ...
9NEWS

Do you understand the Theory of Relativity, really?

BOULDER- Black holes, time travel and E= mc^2. They are all related to Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity. How many of us, though, can actually explain any of it? This year, Einstein's theory ...