Scientists just found the biggest neutron star (or smallest black hole) yet in a strange cosmic collision. News. By Meghan Bartels published 23 June 2020 Whatever it is, scientists are excited.

The discovery of the largest neutron star known to mankind is no small feat. Dense masses like J0740+6620 can help scientists understand how huge neutron stars can possibly be before they succumb ...

If it’s there, it’s the biggest neutron star we’ve ever seen. Advertisement. The gravitational waves that the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) ...

A finding of 2.3 solar masses would make this the largest known neutron star, which have an upper limit of 3 solar masses because neutron stars above this point are believed to collapse into black ...

Twice the mass of the Sun. Nearly 700,000 times heavier than Earth. A team of researchers has discovered the "most massive neutron star ever measured," one that is considered "almost too massive ...

While astronomers can detect neutron stars in a variety of ways, exactly what goes on inside them remains poorly understood. But after decades of research, recent observations and theoretical ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

A typical neutron star compared to the city of Frankfurt. Lukas Weih, Goethe University, satellite image: GeoBasis-DE/BKG (2009) Google Neutron stars are one of the possible end scenarios for ...

Neutron stars generally pack between 1.1 and 3 solar masses into a space about the size of a big city, crushing pretty much all of their electrons and protons together to form neutrons (hence the ...

A team of scientists found a compact object 40,000 light-years from Earth that is either a very massive neutron star or an itsy-bitsy black hole, but they’re not sure which.

Neutron stars are some of the weirdest cosmic objects, and the greatest mysteries lie deep in their hearts. Neutron stars' surface gravities are so intense that the largest "mountains" are only a ...