The teams determined that the neutron star is between 1.3 and 1.4 times the mass of the Sun. And it is roughly 16 miles (26 kilometers) wide. (By contrast, our Sun stretches just over 864,000 ...

The unique neutron star 4U 0142+61 has a solid surface and a giant ring of matter orbiting it. By Troy Farah Science & Health Editor. Published January 9, 2023 2:59PM (EST) ...

New research from physicists at Peking University, China, suggests that some pulsars may have massive mountains on them, ...

Astronomers have for the first time mapped the surface of a neutron star in exquisite detail. Jak Connor. Tech and Science Editor. Published Dec 13, 2019 12:34 AM CST Updated Nov 3, 2020 11:45 AM CST.

Imagine a star so dense that a teaspoon of its material would weigh as much as Mount Everest, spinning hundreds of times per ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

The neutron star 4U 1820-30 is one of the fastest spinning bodies in the universe, spinning at 716 times a second and erupting like an atomic bomb, NASA's NICER telescope has found.

Neutron star "mountains" would be much more massive than any on Earth—so massive that gravity just from these mountains could ...

Neutron stars' surface gravities are so intense that the largest "mountains" are only a few millimeters tall. And those surfaces are already alien, consisting of a crust of heavy atomic nuclei ...

A new supercomputer analysis of neutron stars has revealed that there's between an 80% and 90% chance that these bodies have cores packed with free quarks, which are fundamental, subatomic ...

Element creation in the lab deepens understanding of surface explosions on neutron stars. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 05 / 230523123640.htm ...

Neutron stars are dead relics that have collapsed into very small, dense spheres with tough crusts. Forces welling from within can crack the crusts during events called star quakes, similar to ...