A double blast of dying stars may be the first observed case of a long-hypothesized, never proven “superkilonova.” Although astronomers are still searching for concrete answers, a study published in ...

A distant neutron star has abruptly erupted in brightness, surging to roughly one hundred times its usual output and leaving astronomers scrambling to explain what could drive such a violent change.

Astrophysicists are starting to treat a strange class of “undead” suns as potential tools rather than mere curiosities, ...

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 few ...

"What is remarkable is that the time between pulse pairs seems to follow a choreographed pattern." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...

A research team has investigated long-term X-ray variability in the neutron star NGC 7793 P13, an object thought to be driven by supercritical accretion, where an extraordinary amount of gas falls ...

Neutron stars—the dense remnants of massive stellar explosions—and their presence in X‐ray binaries serve as natural laboratories for extreme physics. In these systems, matter is transferred from a ...

Scientists have precisely measured two unstable atomic nuclei that play a crucial role in explosive X-ray bursts on neutron ...

A spoonful of this star's matter can weigh a billion tons. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. By developing a new theoretical ...

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