Astronomers using NASA’s JWST and other telescopes have detected a bright gamma-ray burst from a neutron star collision, leading to the first direct observation of…
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Artist’s impression of two neutron stars colliding, known as a “kilonova” event. Credit: Elizabeth Wheatley (STScI) Astrophysicists propose observing colliding neutron stars (kilonovae) as a…
The Niels Bohr Institute proposes using kilonovae (explosions from merging neutron stars) to address discrepancies in measuring the Universe’s expansion rate. Initial results are promising,…
MIT astronomers mapped the “disk winds” associated with the accretion disk around Hercules X-1, a system in which a neutron star is drawing material away…
An artist’s impression of a magnetar eruption. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center The sudden slowdown of a star in 2020 provides an opportunity to…
Researchers have successfully synthesized an exotic, but very short-lived, Lambda resonance known as Λ(1405) for the first time. Scientists at Osaka University were part of…
Numerical simulation of the neutron stars merging to form a black hole, with their accretion disks interacting to produce electromagnetic waves. Credit: L. Rezolla (AEI)…
This artist’s impression shows a kilonova produced by two colliding neutron stars. While studying the aftermath of a long gamma-ray burst (GRB), two independent teams…
Merging neutron stars, illustrated here, produce a blast of gamma rays when they come together and collapse into a black hole. Observations of two bursts…
The new work extends models from nuclear physics. A new model for matter in neutron star collisions. After a massive star burns its fuel and…
An image of a neutron star merger and a kilonova. Credit: Tohoku University Neutron star mergers have been confirmed to synthesize rare Earth elements. For…
The study of the sound speed has revealed that heavy neutron stars have a stiff mantle and a soft core, while light neutron stars have…
This is an artist’s impression of two neutron stars colliding. The smashup between two dense stellar remnants unleashes the energy of 1,000 standard stellar nova…
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab Imagine taking a star with twice the mass of the Sun and crushing it down to the size…
When a star dies, the violent ending can lead to the birth of a neutron star. Neutron stars are real heavyweights in the universe –…
A spinning neutron star periodically swings its radio (green) and gamma-ray (magenta) beams past Earth in this artist’s concept of a black widow pulsar. The…
Researchers have simulated and presented a low-cost experiment to produce and study the early phases of this process in ways that were previously considered to…
A neutron star (blue spot at the center of the red ring) located within the remains of a supernova in the Small Magellanic Cloud, located…
An illustrated view of a black widow pulsar and its stellar companion. The pulsar’s gamma-ray emissions (magenta) strongly heat the facing side of the star…
Artist’s conception of a neutron star with an ultra-strong magnetic field, called a magnetar, emitting radio waves (red). Magnetars are a leading candidate for what…