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What do you get when you stare at the same dead star for more than 20 years? Insight into the weirdest physics in the ...
The BOAT is the ruler of all gamma-ray bursts, releasing as much energy in seconds as the sun will in 10 billion years — and ...
Delve into the enigmatic realm of neutron stars—stellar remnants that defy our conventional understanding. Once blazing stars ...
Neutrinos, ghostly particles barely interacting with matter, may secretly be reshaping the fates of massive stars. New ...
Using the world's most advanced radio telescopes, astronomers have discovered a spinning dead star so rare, strange and ...
See a pair of superheavy neutron stars collide in this simulation with gravitational wave audio. "An audible tone and a ...
Neutron stars are the leftover cores of exploded stars and the densest known material in the universe. A typical neutron star has a mass a few times the mass of the sun, compressed into a region ...
According to Dr. Jorge Piekarewicz, a physicist at Florida State University who co-authored a companion study to the neutron star research, they originate from stars very different from our sun.
A powerful new technique harnesses swirling plasma inside laser-blasted microtubes to produce record-breaking magnetic fields ...
Neutron stars are arguably the strangest objects in the cosmos. Born from the deaths of massive stars, they combine strong gravity with temperatures and densities higher than anything we can make in ...