Tag: neutron star

This incredible image captures the ghost of a supernova 100 light-years across.

Could elusive axions be gathering in dense clouds around neutron stars? Some scientists certainly think so.

From ancient civilizations to modern day, the allure of gold has never waned. But where does this precious metal actually ...

Astronomers have called it a "cosmic monster".

New research has shown that mountains on the surface of neutron stars could be millimetres tall.

You wait ages to spot a merger between a neutron star and a black hole and then the two come ...

Not only do gravitational waves represent the ultimate confirmation of the theory of General Relativity, they will provide us with ...

Black holes and neutron stars are the densest and most mysterious objects in the universe, and researchers may have figured ...

You like gold? That too may have been forged by the catacylsmic merger of neutron stars millions of years ago.

The findings might help astronomers unravel the dynamics inside neutron stars.

It's a mind-perplexing 10 billion times stronger than steel.

These stars are bending the laws of physics.

I was never really a fan of gold, but knowing where it originates somehow makes it much more beautiful.

This was an amazing week in science -- with much more to come.

It's not a contest uranium, jeez.

Researchers have found an intriguing resemblance between the human cells and neutron stars.

What we do know is that it blasts enormously powerful X-rays into the void.

NASA released the breathtaking image you see below, announcing that it is basically X-ray light echoes reflecting off clouds of dust. ...

Scientists have observed a massive burst of radio waves, helping them narrow down the potential sources of these huge bursts ...

Physicist Kip Thorne and astronomer Anna Zytkow proposed a new theoretical class of stars back in 1975, but it was ...

The overwhelming part of the universe is still a mystery to astronomers - and most of what we know is ...

In a never-before seen feat, astronomers using NASA's Swift X-ray Telescope have observed a spinning neutron star suddenly slowing down, ...

It looks like not all is going bad for Italian researchers, after the trial of the seismologists: physicists from Italy ...

  The Draco constellation (which is Latin for Dragon) is located at about 3.8 billion light years from Earth; just ...

Those bursts are from magnetars. You may have some idea about what a white dwarf is, or a  black hole ...