How heavy are neutron stars at birth? We now know the answer
An international team of astrophysicists from China and Australia has for the first time determined how massive neutron stars ...
Four new gamma-ray millisecond pulsars discovered
An international team of astronomers reports the detection of four new gamma-ray millisecond pulsars using the Murriyang ...
Mysterious Radio Pulses Hint at a Strange Cosmic Object That Shouldn’t Exist
A cosmic enigma, ASKAP J1839-0756, a slow-spinning neutron star discovered using the ASKAP radio telescope, is challenging ...
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Strange red nova deaths of shrouded stars investigated by 'stellar Sherlocks'
As the great detective said, "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the ...
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Supernova graveyard? 10 million years ago, neutron stars crashed on Earth, reveal traces
Do we live in a supernova graveyard? A team of researchers proposes that 10 million years ago two giant neutron stars crashed ...
Fast Radio Bursts Explained? Scientists Zero In on Their Mysterious Origins
A research team led by McGill identifies neutron stars as the likely source of fast radio bursts, one of the universe's most ...
Unveiling Our Cosmic History: The Supernova Graveyard Hypothesis
Do we inhabit a cosmic wasteland teeming with remnants of massive stellar explosions? Recent research proposes that approximately 10 million years ago, Earth and its Moon were bombarded by debris from ...
Might the proton decay in other places or at other times?
Does the proton decay? While this was a famous prediction of Grand Unified Theories (GUTS) developed in the 1970s and 1980s, ...
Scientists Found 10 Million-Year-Old Remnants of a Massive Kilonova in the Bottom of the Ocean
Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 million years ago. Kilonovas occur when binary neutron stars spiral closer and ...
Mysterious radio pulses from the Milky Way ‘are unlike anything we knew before’
Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...
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Neural network deciphers gravitational waves from merging neutron stars in a second
Binary neutron star mergers emit gravitational waves followed by light. To fully exploit these observations and avoid missing key signals, speed is crucial. An interdisciplinary team of ...
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Nanomaterials used to measure nuclear reaction on radioactive nuclei produced in neutron star collisions
Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions, providing direct experimental data for a process that had previously only been theorised. The study provides new ...