Gamma rays are a broad category of high-energy photons, including everything with more energy than an X-ray. While they are often created by processes like radioactive decay, few astronomical events ...
Magnetar’s latest universal media players, the UDP900MKII and UDP800MKII, are now officially shipping following their first ...
In 2013, astronomers announced they had discovered a magnetar exceptionally close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way using a suite of space-borne telescopes including NASA’s ...
On the outskirts of the Milky Way, one of the rarest kinds of stars in the galaxy has just become even more mysterious than it was before. Astronomers have used the Hubble and Gaia telescopes to study ...
It was a dazzling death. Roughly 1.3 billion years ago a star exploded with such force that it was 50 times brighter than the hundred billion stars in its host galaxy combined. It was so bright that ...
Observations and stellar evolution models of a hot, helium-rich Wolf-Rayet star indicate that it will produce a magnetar when it explodes as a supernova, according to a new study. The findings provide ...
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 ...
Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...
The universe is so vast that even the closest stars are light-years away. They are so distant that they were long thought to be fixed points in the velvet night. Since we can't yet travel to the stars ...
"ProPublica simply got the story wrong," Magnetar told investors yesterday, referring to the ProPublica report that bashes Magnetar for creating a huge portion of the ultimately worthless CDOs that in ...
Magnetar’s back in the news. I’m giddy. First, the story that opened up the local hedge fund to the public, a ProPublica investigation done in collaboration with WBEZ’s This American Life and NPR’s ...
The hedge fund industry is engulfed in disruption, Magnetar Capital founder and CEO Alec Litowitz says, and his firm is shifting to adapt to the changes. Litowitz, whose Evanston hedge fund firm is ...
Results that may be inaccessible to you are currently showing.
Hide inaccessible results
Feedback