Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions, providing direct experimental data for ...

Neutron stars are very small and dense stars, where roughly half a million earth masses of material are squeezed into a city-sized volume with a radius of 10 km.

They are launched when material—mainly dust and gas—falls in towards any dense central object, such as a neutron star (an extremely dense remnant of a once-massive star) or a black hole.

"The idea was that in that collision between the two neutron stars, some of the material from the neutron star crust is going to get ejected out at very high speed and this material has ...

If neutron star crust material is also anisotropic, a mountain-like deformation will result, and its height will increase as the star spins faster. Such a surface feature could explain the maximum ...

Astrophysicist Daniel Reardon says a teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh about 1 trillion kilograms on Earth – that's about as much as a mountain. "Neutron stars are these incredible ...

Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions, providing direct experimental data for a process that had previously only been theorised. The study provides new ...

A puzzling new type of radio signal – lasting seconds to minutes – has been linked to a binary star system featuring a white ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Simulations indicate that the low-mass star in the J0453+1559 binary system could be a neutron star rather than a white dwarf. The star's mass, 1.174 M ⊙, is ...

Researchers have observed only a handful of neutron-star mergers, and only on one occasion — the 2017 event — has the merger also been seen by non-gravitational-wave observatories such as ...