Neutron star

Quick-Cooling Oddballs Rewrite Neutron Star Physics

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Neutron stars are some of the densest objects in the Universe. The material inside gets squeezed so hard that scientists ...

Unveiling the Twisted Roots of Neutron Stars’ Puzzling Pulses

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Researchers have linked the periodic pulses of neutron stars to internal glitches influenced by superfluid vortices, with a new model ...

Mystery of Where Gold and Platinum Come From Deepens After Gargantuan Cosmic Explosion

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In October 2022, an extremely bright flash caught the attention of the Gemini South telescope in Chile. It was quickly ...

Ripples in Spacetime Reveal Mystery Object Colliding With a Star’s Corpse

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A leading gravitational wave observatory recently detected ripples in spacetime that scientists say came from the collision of a dead, ...

The Quest for a Theory of Everything – Scientists Put Einstein to the Test

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By University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences March 23, 2024 The quest for a theory ...

Scientists identify neutron star born out of supernova seen in 1987

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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When a star up to 20 times the mass of our sun exploded in ...

These supernovas are whipping up a storm, contributing to cosmic life and death

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Astronomers have discovered a hitherto unknown source of the cosmic dust. As to why this dust is important to track? ...

Astrophysics in Crisis? Mystery Object Discovered That Could Change Everything

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By Ewan D. Barr, Arunima Dutta, and Benjamin Stappers February 3, 2024 Researchers have identified an enigmatic cosmic system that ...

Astronomers Unprecedented Discovery – Stellar Corpse Shows Signs of Life

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Groundbreaking observations by a Cornell-led team reveal repeated energetic flares from a stellar corpse following a star’s explosion, challenging existing ...

The inside of a dead star might look like a gigantic atomic nucleus

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Scientists may be closer than ever to cracking the mystery of what lies deep beneath the surface of dead, ultradense ...

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