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, ...

Neutron stars are ultra-dense star remnants made up primarily of nucleons (i.e., protons and neutrons). Over the course of ...

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 ...

Physicists have measured the microscopically thin skin of neutrons enclosing the insides of atoms of lead for the first time, finding that it's thicker than expected. The discovery could help to ...

Quantum computing and neutron star physics are converging on the same hard problem: how to describe matter when gravity and ...

Neutron stars are some of the weirdest cosmic objects, and the greatest mysteries lie deep in their hearts. Neutron stars are the leftover cores of exploded stars and the densest known material in the ...

The universe may contain extremely dense and exotic hypothetical cosmic objects known as strange quark stars. While astrophysicists continue to debate quark stars' existence, a team of physicists has ...

Bits of the stars are all around us, and in us, too. About half of the abundance of elements heavier than iron originates in some of the most violent explosions in the cosmos. As the universe churns ...

A recent measurement of a rapidly spinning neutron star has disproved what was regarded as a credible picture of the star’s center. The centers of neutron stars are stiff and not squishy. Neutron ...

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Neutron stars are very small and dense stars, where roughly half a million earth masses of material are squeezed into a city-sized volume with a radius of 10 km. They are mostly composed of neutrons ...