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…
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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…
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…
Artist’s impression of PSR J2039−5617 and its companion. The binary system consists of a rapidly rotating neutron star. Credit: Knispel/Clark/Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics/NASA…
An artistic rendering of the XMM-Newton (X-ray multi-mirror mission) space telescope. A study of archival data from the XMM-Newton and the Chandra X-ray space telescopes…
Artist’s depiction of a magnetar. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada Astronomers have recently found the fastest spinning and possibly the youngest magnetar known. This object, known as…
In the 1970s, physicists uncovered a problem with the Standard Model of particle physics—the theory that describes three of the four fundamental forces of nature…
Artistic representation: In a merger of neutron stars extreme temperatures and densities occur. Credit: Dana Berry, SkyWorks Digital, Inc. A new study lead by GSI…
An MIT-led team simulated the behavior of protons and neutrons in several types of atomic nuclei, finding that the formulas describing how atoms behave in…
A powerful X-ray burst erupts from a magnetar – a supermagnetized version of a stellar remnant known as a neutron star – in this illustration.…
Artist’s impression of a magnetar in outburst, showing complex magnetic field structure and beamed emission, here imagined as following a crust cracking episode. Credit: McGill…
Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab This illustration shows the hot, dense, expanding cloud of debris stripped from neutron stars just before they collided.…
Artist’s rendition of a binary neutron star merger. Credit: National Science Foundation/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet Rapidly rotating, asymmetric neutron stars that undergo free precession can…
This artist’s conception portrays two neutron stars at the moment of collision. Credit: Dana Berry, SkyWorks Digital, Inc. Colliding neutron stars were touted as the…
New predictions are tightly connected to how large neutron stars grow and what elements are likely synthesized in neutron star mergers. Credit: NASA In atomic…
An important breakthrough in how we can understand dead star collisions and the expansion of the Universe has been made by an international team, led…
Artist’s impression of a radio magnetar. Credit: CSIRO On March 12th, 2020, a space telescope called Swift, detected a burst of radiation from half-way across…
In August of 2019, the LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave network witnessed the merger of a black hole with 23 times the mass of our sun and a…
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…
Confirming the existence of quark cores inside neutron stars has been one of the most important goals of neutron star physics for the last 40…