The merger of two neutron stars is among the leading candidate sites for synthesizing the heavier elements on the periodic table through the rapid-neutron-capture process. The image shows two ...

Scientists at Goethe University Frankfurt have identified a new way to probe the interior of neutron stars using gravitational waves from their collisions. By analyzing the "long ringdown" phase—a ...

Now, a single event has given scientists a vital clue. Astronomers witnessed the collision of two neutron stars in a distant galaxy located 130 million light years from Earth. Neutron stars are ...

When neutron stars collide, they create a powerful gravitational-wave signal, with the post-merger remnant ringing like a cosmic tuning fork. Scientists have identified this phase, the "long ringdown, ...

Scientists have discovered a new way to probe the interiors of neutron stars by using gravitational waves to turn them into ...

process taking place at least in neutron-star mergers, as evidenced, e.g., by the kilonova observation from the merger GW170817," explains Kankainen. In this work, researchers determined two ...

AI-driven methods, particularly deep learning ... These methods have been applied to study events such as binary neutron star mergers and neutron star-black hole collisions, uncovering details ...

That's consistent with a blitzar—a bizarre astronomical event caused by the sudden collapse of an overly massive neutron star. The event is driven by an earlier merger of two neutron stars ...

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