An international team of researchers, led by scientists from GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Germany, has studied r-process ...

What happens when the smallest building blocks of matter refuse to play by the rules of traditional physics? For decades, ...

Citizen scientists have spotted the moment a binary star system exploded after playing “spot the difference” with images from ...

Pictures of a distant supernova remnant show two concentric rings, providing clear evidence that exploding white dwarf stars ...

The team used a supercomputer to simulate the fusion of two neutron stars 1.25 times and 1.65 times the mass of the sun, up to about 1.5 seconds after they merge.

A neutron star's final moments may spark violent starquakes, monster shock waves, and even a fleeting, never-before-seen object called a black hole pulsar.

For astrophysicists, neutron stars stand out as objects of irresistible fascination — perhaps, in part, because of how difficult they are to decipher. But calculations conducted on the Frontier ...

An artist's concept of a black hole orbited by a neutron star. Image: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) When a black hole and a neutron star finally meet, the result is cosmic carnage—and now, thanks to ...

In a major breakthrough, scientists have simulated in unprecedented detail how a neutron star cracks just seconds before being swallowed by a black hole. The simulation, led by Caltech ...

Formed after a massive star's core collapses, and the star's subsequent supernova explosion, neutron stars are the densest objects in space that can be directly observed. That density also makes them ...

"The neutron star's crust will crack open just like the ground in an earthquake," Most says. "The black hole's gravity first shears the surface, causing quakes in the star and the opening of rifts." ...