While ESA's satellite INTEGRAL was observing the sky, it spotted a burst of gamma-rays—high-energy photons—coming from the ...

Thanks to ESA satellites, an international team including UNIGE researchers has detected a giant eruption coming from a ...

Magnetars are among the universe's most extreme objects - a class of the compact stellar remnants called neutron stars that ...

Université de Genève. (2024, April 24). Eruption of mega-magnetic star lights up nearby galaxy. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 1, 2024 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 04 ...

Artist's impression of a magnetar. Magnetars are the cosmic objects with the strongest magnetic fields ever measured in the Universe. While ESA’s satellite INTEGRAL was observing the sky, it ...

Its giant flare was detected by the European Space Agency's Integral space observatory on Nov. 15, 2023, in M82, a galaxy boasting a star formation rate much higher than the Milky Way's - called a ...

(Nanowerk News) While ESA’s satellite INTEGRAL was observing the sky, it spotted a burst of gamma-rays - high-energy photons - coming from the nearby galaxy M82. Only a few hours later, ESA’s ...

Artist's impression of a magnetar. Magnetars are the cosmic objects with the strongest magnetic fields ever measured in the Universe.