The violent merger of two neutron stars is thought to involve three main energy-transfer processes, shown in this diagram, that give rise to the different types of radiation seen by astronomers, ...

A new paper published in Nature Communications could put scientists on the path to understanding one of the wildest, hottest, and most densely packed places in the universe: a neutron star.

Illustration of the new method: the researchers use five-dimensional black holes (right) to calculate the phase diagram of strongly coupled matter (middle), enabling simulations of neutron star ...

Researchers might have detected different breeds of dense stars called neutron stars, each created by different kinds of exploding stars. Neutron stars are stellar corpses left over from supernovas, ...

Our Sun is on its own in this galaxy, without a nearby companion orbiting with it. But binary star systems are pretty common, and our nearest neighbor appears to be a three-star system. Given how many ...

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious unknown object in our galaxy that could be a breakthrough in the study of black holes. The “extremely dense remnant of a collapsed star” lies about 235,000 ...