Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. Magnetars can produce some of the most energetic bursts of ...

When the roiling nuclear fusion inside of a star begins to die — gravity crushing into the star’s waning fuel-store of hydrogen atoms, fusing them into heavier helium nuclei — the universe usually ...

Magnetars are the strongest magnets in the Universe. These super-dense dead stars with ultra-strong magnetic fields can be found all over our galaxy but astronomers don't know exactly how they form.

Exceedingly brief but incredibly bright, the strange phenomenon of Fast Radio Bursts continues to puzzle scientists. These flashes of radio energy are so bright they can travel billions of light-years ...

"We know that magnetars exist because we see them in our galaxy. We think most of them are formed in the explosive deaths of massive stars, leaving these highly magnetized neutron stars behind.

Dark matter, the enigmatic cosmic ghost, is everywhere, but remains unseen. Scientists believe it outweighs normal matter in the universe several times over, yet it’s so elusive that no telescope has ...

Scientists now believe highly magnetised neutron stars, or magnetars, are a significant source of gold and other heavy elements, challenging the long-held neutron star collision theory. Evidence from ...

Strange radio signals coming from a magnetar that "woke up" after more than a decade of radio silence cannot be explained by our current understanding of the universe's strongest magnets, hinting at a ...

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 ...

If you think black holes are the scariest things in the Universe, I have something to share with you. There are balls of dead matter no bigger than a city yet shining a hundred times brighter than the ...

Captured by cutting-edge radio telescope technology, a chance reactivation of a magnetar -- the Universe's most powerful magnets -- has revealed an unexpectedly complex environment. Researchers using ...