{"id":233170,"date":"2026-03-12T14:11:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/strange-chirp-may-reveal-what-powers-the-brightest-supernovae-in-the-universe"},"modified":"2026-03-12T14:11:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:11:25","slug":"strange-chirp-may-reveal-what-powers-the-brightest-supernovae-in-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/strange-chirp-may-reveal-what-powers-the-brightest-supernovae-in-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Strange \u2018Chirp\u2019 May Reveal What Powers The Brightest Supernovae in The Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/strange-chirp-may-reveal-what-powers-the-brightest-supernovae-in-the-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A strange chirp appeared in the light from a massive stellar explosion.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists think it may be the signature of a newborn magnetar \ud83e\uddf2\u2b50<\/p>\n<p>Full story.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A never-before-seen \u2018chirp\u2019 in the light of an exploding star has revealed new clues about the engine powering some of the brightest supernovae in the Universe.<\/p>\n<p>According to an analysis of the unprecedented signal, a superluminous supernova named SN 2024afav was most likely the violent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-magnetars-birthplace-deepens-the-mystery-of-its-origins\">birth of a magnetar<\/a> \u2013 a rapidly spinning, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/astronomers-have-found-a-new-magnetar\">extremely magnetic neutron star<\/a> whose environment is \u2018wobbling\u2019 due to an effect predicted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/general-relativity\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">general relativity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The event, says a team led by astrophysicist Joseph Farah of Las Cumbres Observatory in the US, marks the first observational evidence of this effect, known as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lense%E2%80%93Thirring_precession\">Lense-Thirring precession<\/a>, in the environment of a magnetar.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/strange-chirp-may-reveal-what-powers-the-brightest-supernovae-in-the-universe\">Continue reading \u201cStrange \u2018Chirp\u2019 May Reveal What Powers The Brightest Supernovae in The Universe\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strange chirp appeared in the light from a massive stellar explosion. Scientists think it may be the signature of a newborn magnetar \ud83e\uddf2\u2b50 Full story. A never-before-seen \u2018chirp\u2019 in the light of an exploding star has revealed new clues about the engine powering some of the brightest supernovae in the Universe. According to an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}