"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...

They have refined the estimate of the black hole mass, ruling out the possibility of it being a neutron star. It is thought ...

In a landmark discovery, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a solitary stellar-mass black hole—an object with ...

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3. It's mass is "33 times that of our Sun," according to the European Southern ...

Researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the magnetar called SGR 0501+4516 is traversing our galaxy ...

Highly magnetic neutron star is wandering our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have tracked ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down its communication systems and central computer and said goodbye to this ...

A decade of observations cast doubt on the typical magnetar origin story, at least as it relates to SGR 0501+4516.

Astronomers have tracked a mysterious magnetar, SGR 0501+4516, across the Milky Way, revealing it may not have formed in a ...

Its proximity to the supernova remnant HB9 once suggested a supernova birth. However, with only 80 arcminutes separating them ...

Scientists have uncovered the strongest evidence yet for the existence of elusive intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), long ...