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

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 ...

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

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

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

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.

They cross-checked this data with the Gaia mission's 3D map of the Milky Way, which the ESA released in 2022, and found that SGR 0501+4516 couldn't have been associated with HB9, after all ...

While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...

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