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Exploring the Origin of a Distant Type Ibn Supernova Found Far From Its Host Galaxy

X-8 is a 9.66-second pulsar with one of the fastest spin-up rates observed in ultraluminous X-ray pulsars, exhibiting super-Eddington luminosity and a strong magnetic field.

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An international team of astronomers has performed photometric and spectroscopic observations of a distant Type Ibn supernova known as SN 2024acyl. Results of the observational campaign, published November 6 on the arXiv preprint server, shed more light on the properties and origin of this supernova.

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Thanks to ESA's XMM-Newton satellite, European astronomers have observed ultra-luminous X-ray (ULX) sources in the NGC 4631 galaxy. As a result, they have detected a new pulsed ULX, which has been named X-8. The research is published on November 6th on the arXiv pre-print server. The nature of the ULX [...]

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Phys.org broke the news in United Kingdom on Wednesday, November 12, 2025.
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