Astronomers have used an X-ray spacecraft called XRISM to observe powerful winds blowing from a neutron star — the findings ...

XRISM found a slow, thick wind from a neutron star, pointing to temperature as the key driver of cosmic wind behavior. The ...

Our readers agree that in the unlikely event you were able to approach a neutron star, it would look very smooth and bright ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic and luminous explosions in the universe. However, they are fleeting and often ...

New simulations of neutron star mergers reveal that the mixing and changing of tiny particles called neutrinos impacts how ...

"This is the most massive black hole binary we've observed through gravitational waves, and it presents a real challenge to our understanding ... earlier mergers of smaller black holes." 3. This ...

An artistic illustration of the magnetar and the gamma-ray burst jet in this work (Illustration: Yuja Tian and Yuting Wu, ...

This quiz will take you on a journey through the life cycle of stars, their classification, and the incredible processes that ...

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, yet is predicted to account for most of the universe's mass. As it cannot be detected and studied using ...

The transformation of neutrinos in a neutron star merger could be crucial to shaping the way events of the collision unfold. For the first time, a team of physicists has simulated how neutrinos change ...

The collision and merger of two neutron stars—the incredibly dense remnants of collapsed stars—are some of the most energetic events in the universe, producing a variety of signals that can be ...