Astronomers capture birth of a magnetar, confirming link to some of universe’s brightest exploding stars

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Astronomers capture birth of a magnetar, confirming link to some of universe’s brightest exploding stars

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Astronomers capture birth of a magnetar, confirming link to some of universe’s brightest exploding stars - Berkeley News

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A UC Berkeley theorist proposed that highly magnetized, spinning neutron stars were the power source behind superluminous supernovae. A recent supernova provided the smoking gun.

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