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…
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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…
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Northwestern Univ./A. Hajela et al.; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the…
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has been collecting data on a kilonova—a powerful event illustrated here that happens when two neutron stars merge—associated with GW170817. This…
In this artist’s representation, the merger of two neutron stars to form a black hole (hidden within bright bulge at center of image) generated opposing,…
SISSA scientists provide the first simulation of neutron starA neutron star is the collapsed core of a large (between 10 and 29 solar masses) star.…
Depiction of neutron star blowing out warm and cold winds. Credit: Gabriel Pérez (IAC) Using the most powerful telescopes on Earth and in space, a…
Animation of a spinning neutron star in space. Neutron stars are directly observable, usually as “pulsars” – the lighthouses of the cosmos. Credit: NASA’s Goddard…
A neutron star begins its life as a star between about 7 and 20 times the mass of the sun. When this type of star…
Credit: RUVID An international scientific group with outstanding Valencian participation has managed to measure for the first time oscillations in the brightness of a neutron…
This simulation shows two dense neutron stars colliding. The collision has formed a black hole orbited by a whirlpool of magnetized gas. Some matter emerges…
An artist’s impression of the mysterious burst AT2018cow. Credit: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan The discovery, based on an unusual event dubbed “The Cow,” may…
Artist’s representation of IXPE in Earth orbit. Credit: NASA NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the…
Scientists have for the first time detected black holes eating neutron stars, “like Pac Man,” in a discovery documenting the collision of the two most…