Galactic collisions, meteor impacts and even stellar mergers are not uncommon events. neutron stars colliding with black holes however are…
Neutron stars, the remains of massive stars that have imploded and gone supernova at the end of their life, can…
It’s a well known fact that black holes absorb anything that falls into them. Often before material ‘vanishes’ inside it…
When stars grow old and die, their mass determines their ultimate fate. Many supermassive stars have futures as neutron stars.…
Astronomers have used two X-ray telescopes to study a neutron star and have discovered a link between it and mysterious…
Everybody knows that the explosive deaths of supermassive stars (called supernovae) lead to the creation of black holes or neutron…
Neutron stars are the incredibly dense remnants from massive star supernovae. Although they're pulled into dense spheres by their intense…
When a star with several times the mass of the Sun dies in a supernova explosion, it ends up as…
There are many mysteries in the world of astronomy and a fair number relate to the processes during the end…
Most of the times astronomers reported dramatic, cataclysmic events like neutron star mergers or the creation of a black hole;…