On the outskirts of the Milky Way, one of the rarest kinds of stars in the galaxy has just become even more mysterious than ...

Neutron star mergers are collisions between neutron stars, the collapsed cores of what were once massive supergiant stars. These mergers are known to generate gravitational waves, energy-carrying ...

Neutron stars are the densest objects in the universe after they form from supernova crashes of massive stars. These mysterious bodies have fascinated researchers throughout the last several decades, ...

Dance of Electrons Measured in the Glow from Exploding Neutron-Stars Nov. 4, 2024 — The temperature of elementary particles has been observed in the radioactive glow following the collision of ...

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The main prediction is that the thermal emission of neutron stars with extremely strong magnetic fields is polarized — up to a few per cent for the largest fields known. This potentially allows a ...

Apr. 16, 2025 — Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these 'polar ...

This work builds on data collected by various observatories worldwide. These images show the merger of two neutron stars simulated with a new supercomputer model. Red colors indicate lower-density ...

A new study now extends the researchers' previous work, but with a wider GRB sample. Hakkila and Zsolt Bagoly, authors of the study, have refined the measurements. They detected a number of relatively ...

The UK Supreme Court's landmark ruling limiting the definition of a woman to biological sex stirred outrage among the stars of BBC’s "RuPaul’s Drag Race UK," who pledged to "fight back ...