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…
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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…
Illustration showing gamma-rays from a neutron star. Credit: NASA Using Neutron Stars To Detect Dark Matter The search for dark matter may need a detector…
Schematic representation of binary neutron star merger outcomes. Panels A and B: Two neutron stars merge as the emission of gravitational waves drives them towards…
An artist’s impression of gravitational waves generated by binary neutron stars. Credit: R. Hurt/Caltech-JPL Binary neutron stars have been detected in the Milky WayThe Milky…
Two neutron stars colliding. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab In the 2030’s, gravitational-wave detectors will be thousands of times more sensitive than Advanced…
Fast-moving debris from a supernova explosion triggered by a stellar collision crashes into gas thrown out earlier, and the shocks cause bright radio emission seen…
Image from a MAYA collaboration numerical relativity simulation of an NSBH binary merger, showing the disruption of the Neutron Star. Credit: Deborah Ferguson (UT Austin),…
Two gravitational wave signals from an entirely new class of cosmic collisions have been discovered by researchers working on the Advanced LIGOThe Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave…
Artist’s depiction of a neutron star. Credit: ESO / L. Calçada New models of neutron stars show that their tallest mountains may be only fractions…
Image from a MAYA collaboration numerical relativity simulation of an NSBH binary merger, showing the disruption of the Neutron Star. Credit: Deborah Ferguson (UT Austin),…
Artist’s view of a black hole-neutron star merger. Credit: © Carl Knox, OzGrav – Swinburne University Gravitational wave detectors have observed a new type of…
An artistic image inspired by a black hole-neutron star merger event. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav/Swinburne Mix pair is “elusive missing piece of the family picture…
A composite image of the supernova 1E0102.2-7219 contains X-rays from Chandra (blue and purple), visible light data from VLT’s MUSE instrument (bright red), and additional…
The SFB-TR 211 investigates the collision of heavy ions and neutron stars under extreme conditions. The simulation image shows the density of two neutron stars…
Artist’s illustration of a double neutron star merger. Credit: NSF/LIGO/Sonoma State/A. Simonnet Scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) have…
Data from Chandra and NuSTAR provide evidence for the existence of a structure known as a “pulsar wind nebula” at the center of the Supernova…
An artist’s impression shows two translucent orbs, which represent tin nuclei, colliding and shattering in a shower of colorful shards. Amidst these shards, which represent…
NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), at center, is an X-ray telescope aboard the International Space Station. Credit: NASA Matter in the hearts of…
On the left, data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory shows a portion of the remains of an exploded star known as supernova 1987A. On the…