A neutron star pileup may have emitted two different kinds of cosmic signals: ripples in spacetime known as gravitational waves and a brief blip of energy called a fast radio burst. One of the three ...

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Creating a neutron star Before you can get this ideal cosmic laboratory, a star first has to die. The end of a star’s life depends largely on its mass. Unremarkable stars like the Sun go out with a ...

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Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions, providing direct experimental data for a process that had previously only been theorised. The study provides new ...

The lab experiment improves understanding of nuclear reactions that occur when material falls onto the surface of an important subset of neutron stars. These stars are born when a massive star runs ...

That collapse suddenly deletes the dynamo powering the magnetic fields, releasing their energy in the form of a fast radio burst. The researchers who performed the analysis suggest that this ...

Science Division Dean Bryan Gaensler. An international team of scientists led by McGill University researchers has provided the clearest evidence yet that some fast radio bursts (FRBs)—enigmatic, ...

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 ...

UPTON, NY—Physicists studying particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have published the first observation of directed flow of hypernuclei. These short-lived, rare nuclei ...

"What is remarkable is that the time between pulse pairs seems to follow a choreographed pattern." Using the world's most advanced radio telescopes, astronomers have discovered a spinning dead star so ...

Launching Neutron Star as a sub reading mode for the redesign was a bit of an experiment. Now that it's been live for a week+ (and the new more dense List view is live) we'd love to start gathering ...