neutron star
Do Neutron Stars Have Mountains? Gravitational Wave Observatories Could Detect Them
Neutron stars are the incredibly dense remnants from massive star supernovae. Although they're pulled into dense spheres by their intense…
The Most Massive Neutron Stars Probably Have Cores of Quark Matter
When a star with several times the mass of the Sun dies in a supernova explosion, it ends up as…
Simulation Perfectly Matches What We See When Neutron Stars Collide
There are many mysteries in the world of astronomy and a fair number relate to the processes during the end…
Scientists Found Evidence Of A Nearby Kilonova 3.5 Million Years Ago
Most of the times astronomers reported dramatic, cataclysmic events like neutron star mergers or the creation of a black hole;…
When Stars Consume Their Partners, We Could Detect a Blast of Neutrinos
You might be familiar with the bizarre ritual of the female praying mantis which, I’m told, bites off the head…
Astronomers are Hoping to Detect Gravitational Waves Coming from Supernova 1987A
A supernova explosion is a cataclysmic explosion that marks the violent end of a massive star’s life. During the event,…
If Neutron Stars Have Mountains, They Should Generate Gravitational Waves
Astronomers have discovered the gravitational waves released by colliding black holes, neutron stars, and even the background waves from merging…
Record-Breaking Magnetar was There in the Data All Along
The cosmic zoo has strange beasts that astronomers stumble across in the most fascinating ways. Not long ago a team…
The Heaviest Neutron Stars Could Have Strange Matter Cores
Physics gets weird at the extremes. Astrophysics usually deals with the extremely large - large energies, large gravities, and lots…
Neutron Star Behaves Like a Mini-quasar
There's a wobbly X-ray-bright binary object in our galaxy called Hercules X-1 that's blowing a mighty wind off to surrounding…