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

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses. They definitely exist in East Lansing, Michigan.

The signal emitted by two merging neutron stars resembles that of a tuning fork. Credit: L. Rezzolla/pixabay. Scientists have discovered a new way to study the mysterious interiors of neutron ...

Abstract This paper reports aformulafor calculating the average gravity on the surface ofrotationalobjectderived from Hoffman-Wellenhof'sdefinitionand modern physics.This formula shows that there is a ...

These discoveries established neutron star mergers as veritable “gold mines,” because more than half of all the elements heavier than iron can be forged in the collision (Nedora et al., 2021) through ...

Magnetars are among the universe's most extreme objects - a class of the compact stellar remnants called neutron stars that possess immensely strong magnetic fields. Once in a while, they produce ...

The youngest neutron star detected so far turned 37 years old last week. To celebrate, James Webb Space Telescope has finally found the most direct evidence of it, hiding among the remains of the ...

First Direct Measurement Constraining the Ar34 (α,p)K37 Reaction Cross Section for Mixed Hydrogen and Helium Burning in Accreting Neutron Stars. Physical Review Letters, 2023; 130 (21) DOI: 10. ...

A typical neutron star has a mass greater than our sun, yet a radius of only a dozen kilometers; hence, a single tablespoon of neutron star matter weighs around 1 billion tons.

Researchers at the Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik in Germany have found evidence that suggests the extremely tiny neutron star, HESS J1731-347, may in fact be a "strange" star. In their ...