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

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

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

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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) ...

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

Neutron stars can exist in isolation, only detectable by their surface temperature, or they can dwell in partnerships with "ordinary" stars, often siphoning off their material, or in some cases ...

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

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 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 ...