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Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...
Scientists say that the construction of a vast new radio telescope array in the Utah desert — known as the Deep Synoptic ...
Pulsars and neutron stars are some of the most fascinating and mysterious objects in the universe. In this video, we explore ...
The team suggests that if there are small mountains on pulsars, China’s FAST (Five- hundred-meter Aperture Spherical ...
A groundbreaking simulation reveals how neutron star mergers forge black holes, generate gamma-ray bursts, and scatter gold ...
The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...
What would happen if you put a baseball-sized piece of neutron star on the Earth? Would it fall to the core of the Earth and ...
Imagine a star so dense that a teaspoon of its material would weigh as much as Mount Everest, spinning hundreds of times per ...
The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.
Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...
Astronomers have taken the first ever image that shows what happens when a star explodes twice in a supernova.
The NICER telescope developed a light leak in May 2023 when several thin thermal shields were damaged and let in sunlight ...