In a study published in the journal Physical Review D, nuclear theorists at Indiana University consider analogies between neutron star mountains and surface features of solar system bodies.

is the origin of neutron star magnetic fields. It remains to be explained why some neutron stars, called magnetars, are born with very high surface field strengths of order 10 15 Gauss.

The researchers found that neutron star merger remnants consist of a central ... Unlike most stars, the inner remnant has a higher temperature on its surface than in its core, so convective ...

An international team, including UNIGE, has reproduced for the first time the formation and evolution of a magnetar.

The work, which appears in the journal Physical Review Letters, proposes that UHECRs are accelerated in the turbulent magnetic outflows of Binary Neutron Star mergers -- spewed out from the merger ...

Just a sugar cube of neutron star matter would weigh about one hundred million tons on Earth. A neutron star's almost incomprehensible density causes protons and electrons to combine into neutrons ...

Infalling gas forms a bright hot spot on the neutron star surface, which creates a light-house effect, because the neutron star revolves every 1.2 seconds.

This flow of matter can occur either through Roche Lobe Overflow or by stellar winds driven by radiation pressure. This stellar material is then funneled through the magnetic field lines to hot-spots ...

Binary neutron star mergers occur millions of light-years away from Earth. Interpreting the gravitational waves they produce presents a major challenge for traditional data-analysis methods.

More massive stars than the Sun have a very different life cycle and follow the right hand path in the diagram above: \({Nebula}\rightarrow{protostar}\rightarrow{main~sequence~star}\rightarrow{red ...

When these stars dance, they make their own music. Astronomers have tracked down the source of a mysterious radio signal from deep space repeating every two hours. Stunningly, it's a pair of stars in ...