For decades, astronomers have used distant supernovae as cosmic lighthouses to test fundamental physics and to measure the universe. For Joseph Farah, a fifth-year graduate student at UC Santa Barbara ...

Researchers report superluminous supernova SN 2024afav whose erratic behavior supports a long-standing theory of stellar death using general relativity. (Nanowerk News) Astronomers have used distant ...

Astronomers have identified the birth of a magnetar, a hyper-magnetized neutron star, by detecting a subtle warping of ...

The investigative minds at How to Survive utilize general relativity to explain the spaghettification and temporal distortion ...