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• UC Berkeley Theory Confirmed as Astronomers Witness Birth of Magnetar Powering Superluminous Supernova

  Published: Mar 13, 2026

  Section: Innovations in Space

  Sixteen years after it was first theorized at UC Berkeley, researchers have found "smoking gun" evidence that magnetars are the engines behind the universe's brightest explosions....

• UC Santa Barbara Researchers Detect First Cosmic "Chirp" Confirming General Relativity in Superluminous Supernova

  Published: Mar 13, 2026

  Section: Innovations in Space

  Astronomers have discovered that a superluminous supernova, SN 2024afav, displays a periodic "chirp" signal caused by space-time twisting around a dying star. This observation prov...