A research team is using astrophysical explosions to understand the mysterious forces at work in some of the smallest ...

Scientists analyzing a gravitational-wave signal have discovered that a neutron star and black hole spiraled together on an ...

Neutron stars harbor some of the most extreme environments in the universe: their densities soar to several times those of ...

Astronomers have tracked a powerful blast of radiation back to its source, finding a neutron star collision within colliding galaxies.

In 2020, astronomers discovered a violent cosmic event that has led them to rethink how extreme pairs of astronomical objects form. These pairs are capable of producing powerful cosmic collisions.

Scientists believe this long stream of gas may have formed when several galaxies collided millions of years ago.

Some of the universe’s densest objects can twist, stretch, and resonate in ways that challenge even the most seasoned physicists. Neutron stars, the remnants of massive stars that have exploded as ...

Scientists have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to unlock secrets hidden within the ...

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 ...

Merging black holes and neutron stars have unusual oval orbits prior to colliding and merging, which challenge the laws of physics.

Paul D. Lasky is in the School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University, Melbourne 3800, Australia. Nuclear physicists cannot calculate how matter should behave during and immediately after these ...

Ever since neutron stars were discovered, researchers have been using their unusual properties to probe our universe. The superdense remnants of stellar explosions, neutron stars pack a mass greater ...