A neutron star is the densest object astronomers can observe directly, crushing half a million times Earth’s mass into a sphere about 22 kilometers across,…
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Scientists with the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT) team presented their new results on black hole and neutron star X-ray binaries during a press conference…
A black widow pulsar and its small stellar companion, viewed within their orbital plane. Powerful radiation and the pulsar’s “wind” – an outflow of high-energy…
Artist impression of the pulse from a massive neutron star being delayed by the passage of a white dwarf star between the neutron star and…
An artistic rendition of two neutron stars merging. Credit: NSF/LIGO/Sonoma State/A. Simonnet Afterglow sheds light on the nature, origin of neutron star collisions, as researchers…
Artist’s depiction of a black hole about to swallow a neutron star. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav ARC Centre of Excellence. Scientists, including from The Australian…
In a paper published today scientists have studied the Vela Pulsar, a neutron star in the southern sky, that is 1,000 light years away. Neutron…
Simulation of merging neutron stars calculated with supercomputers. Different colors show the mass density and the temperature some time after the merger has taken place…
This pulsar, named SXP 1062, lies in the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the satellite galaxies of our Milky Way galaxy. It…