Explore the cosmic aftermath of a neutron star collision. This animation breaks down the detection of a kilonova and explains ...

Researchers using Murriyang, CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope, have detected unusual radio pulses from a previously dormant star with a powerful magnetic field. The paper, "Linear to circular conversion ...

The guiding force behind Magnetar was Alec Litowitz, a triathlete, astronomy buff and rising star in the investing world. In 2003, Litowitz retired from a Chicago-based hedge fund, Citadel, one of the ...

Magnetar Capital is an Evanston, Illinois-based multi-strategy asset manager that was founded in 2005 by Alec Litowitz and Ross Laser, who previously worked at Citadel LLC and Glenwood Capital ...

(Phys.org) —A team of astronomers including two researchers from UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory has made the first ever measurement of the magnetic field at a specific spot on the surface of a ...

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 ...

Far-off in the Milky Way galaxy, 21,000 light-years from Earth, astronomers have spotted the fastest-spinning magnetar (and possibly youngest, too) ever seen. And that's just the start of what makes ...

Magnetar Capital, the $18 billion hedge fund firm, will shun human analysts for its newest offering and instead deploy hundreds of AI bots to research stocks. Most Read from BloombergHouse Republican ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If a magnetar flew past Earth within 100,000 miles, the intense magnetic field of the exotic ...