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 ...
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 ...
You might as well call PSR J1119-6127 sasquatch, because it seems to be a “missing link” in neutron stars, according to Walid Majid of JPL. At an announcement on January 6 at the 229th meeting of the ...
Magnetars are the bizarre superdense remnants of supernova explosions. They are the strongest magnets known in the universe — millions of times more powerful than the strongest magnets on Earth. A ...
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