Searching for Dark Matter With a Detector Larger Than We Can Build on Earth
Using Neutron Stars To Detect Dark Matter The search for dark matter may need a detector larger than we can build on Earth, but it…
Using Neutron Stars To Detect Dark Matter The search for dark matter may need a detector larger than we can build on Earth, but it…
Mergers between two neutron stars have produced more heavy elements in the last 2.5 billion years than mergers between neutron stars and black holes. Most…
On August 17th, 2017, LIGO detected gravitational waves from the merger of two neutron stars. This merger radiated energy across the electromagnetic spectrum, light that…
Binary neutron stars have been detected in the Milky Way as millisecond pulsars and twice outside the galaxy via gravitational-wave emission. Most of them have…
In the 2030s, gravitational-wave detectors will be thousands of times more sensitive than Advanced LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA. The network of “third generation” (3G) observatories…
Astronomers have found dramatic evidence that a black hole or neutron star spiraled its way into the core of a companion star and caused that…
First Detection of Gravitational Waves From Black Holes Swallowing Neutron Stars For the first time, scientists have picked up the ripples in space-time caused by…
Two gravitational wave signals from an entirely new class of cosmic collisions have been discovered by researchers working on the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo…
New models of neutron stars show that their tallest mountains may be only fractions of millimeters high, due to the huge gravity on the ultra-dense…
Salvatore Vitale describes how gravitational-wave signals suggest black holes completely devoured their companion neutron stars. Recently, an international team of scientists, including researchers at MIT,…
Gravitational wave detectors have observed a new type of cataclysmic event in the cosmos: the merger of a neutron star with a black hole. The…
Mix pair is “elusive missing piece of the family picture of compact object mergers.” A long time ago, in two galaxies about 900 million light-years…
When a massive star dies, first there is a supernova explosion. Then, what’s left over becomes either a black hole or a neutron star. That…
A team at Stony Brook University used ORNL’s Summit supercomputer to model X-ray burst flames spreading across the surface of dense neutron stars. At the…
The Collaborative Research Center Transregio “Strongly Interacting Matter under Extreme Conditions,” a joint initiative of the Technical University of Darmstadt, Goethe University Frankfurt and Bielefeld…
Scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) have described a way to determine the birth population of double neutron stars…
Since astronomers captured the bright explosion of a star on February 24, 1987, researchers have been searching for the squashed stellar core that should have…
Nuclear physicists make new, high-precision measurement of the layer of neutrons that encompass the lead nucleus, revealing new information about neutron stars. Nuclear physicists have…