A powerful cosmic event from 2004—a gamma-ray burst from a magnetar 30,000 light-years away—has just…
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.
Physicists propose that high-energy photon jets from collapsing stars may be secret factories of heavy…
Highly magnetic neutron star is wandering our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space…
A new paper provides scientists with a groundbreaking tool for understanding cataclysmic events. Physicist Glennys…
A machine learning method has the potential to revolutionize multi-messenger astronomy. Detecting binary neutron star…
For the first time, scientists have directly measured a weak r-process reaction using a radioactive…
A research team led by McGill identifies neutron stars as the likely source of fast…
A long-lost cosmic explosion, buried within two decades of NASA’s Chandra X-ray data, has finally…
When neutron stars collide, they create a powerful gravitational-wave signal, with the post-merger remnant ringing…
Researchers are delving into the world of starquakes to understand the densest matter in the…
Scientists have uncovered the long-sought mechanism behind low-field magnetars, showing that supernova fallback material drives…
Ultra-high energy cosmic rays are energized by magnetic turbulence, not shock acceleration, according to new…
The fleeting cosmic firework likely originated within the turbulent magnetosphere surrounding a distant neutron star.…
Researchers have developed a new computational method to explore the neutron matter inside neutron stars…
Requiring consistency between the physics of neutron stars and quark matter leads to the first…
Researchers find evidence of superfluidity in low-density neutron matter by using highly flexible neural-network representations…
Extreme stars may possess mountains similar to those found on moons in our solar system,…
Astrophysicists have, for the first time, measured the temperature of elementary particles in the radioactive…