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

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The team suggests that if there are small mountains on pulsars, China’s FAST (Five- hundred-meter Aperture Spherical ...

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

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

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.

Pulsars, the dense cores of collapsed stars, could potentially have tiny mountains on their surfaces, challenging our current ...

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 other cases, another member of the system will go on to form a second white dwarf. If gravitational instabilities bring ...

European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope took photos a rare supernova roughly 300 years after it happened ...

“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 ...