The universe is so vast that even the closest stars are light-years away. They are so distant that they were long thought to be fixed points in the velvet night. Since we can't yet travel to the stars ...

EVANSTON, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Magnetar, a leading alternative asset manager, today announced the successful close of Magnetar AI Ventures Fund LP (“Magnetar AI Ventures” or the “Fund”), a $235 ...

Astronomers at NASA and ESA have discovered the youngest pulsar known. This celestial child is a mere 240 years old, and its birth would have been visible on Earth at the time as a supernova. In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the outskirts of the Milky Way, one of the rarest kinds of stars in the galaxy has just become even more mysterious than it was ...

We are entering another exciting phase for PC processors, particularly if you’re a content creator. While the mid-range pendulum swung back to Intel in our workstations Labs, AMD’s Ryzen 7000 series ...

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 ...

For the first time, astronomers have definitively spotted a flaring magnetar in another galaxy. These ultra-magnetic stellar corpses were thought to be responsible for some of the highest-energy ...

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 ...

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Roughly 11.5 million years ago in a galaxy not too far away, a starquake cracked the surface of a small and violent stellar corpse. This rupture caused an enormous flare that sent X-rays and gamma ...

Magnetar Capital LLC, the infamous hedge fund that has been under SEC investigation for its role in the subprime mortgage crisis, is onto its new business venture, this time in a small Ohio town.