ESA’s technical center in the Netherlands has begun running a pulsar-based clock. The ‘PulChron’ system…
Browsing: Neutron Star
A neutron star is the collapsed core of a massive star that has exploded in a supernova, leaving behind an incredibly dense object composed almost entirely of neutrons. Though typically only about 20 kilometers across, neutron stars can contain more mass than the Sun, resulting in extreme gravity, magnetic fields, and rotational speeds. These cosmic remnants are laboratories for physics under conditions that can’t be replicated on Earth, offering insights into matter at nuclear densities, gravitational waves, and the behavior of space-time itself. Ongoing research continues to uncover their role in stellar evolution, cosmic collisions, and the origins of heavy elements.
An international team of scientists studying what amounts to a computer-simulated “pulsar in a box”…
A team of scientists has calculated the strength of the material deep inside the crust…
An unusual infrared light emission from a nearby neutron star detected by NASA’s Hubble Space…
Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to discover a ring of black holes or…
GW170817 is the name given to a gravitational wave signal seen by the LIGO and…
Harnessing the exquisite sensitivity of the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers have…
A research team led by astronomers at the University of Warwick had to wait over…
How large is a neutron star? Previous estimates varied from eight to sixteen kilometers. Astrophysicists…
Researchers at Oregon State University have confirmed that last fall’s union of two neutron stars…
Astronomers have discovered a special kind of neutron star for the first time outside of…
Young scientists from ITMO University have explained how neutron stars generate intense directed radio emission.…
New images from ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile and other telescopes reveal a rich…
ESA’s Integral space observatory has witnessed a rare event: the moment that winds emitted by…
In the 1980s, scientists started discovering a new class of extremely bright sources of X-rays…
In the 1980s, researchers began discovering extremely bright sources of X-rays in the outer portions…
The afterglow from the distant neutron-star merger detected last August has continued to brighten -…
An international team of scientists reveals in the journal Nature that the neutron-star merger announced…