Kilonova explosions from neutron star collisions may damage atmospheres and threaten life if nearby, according to a new study ...

When they are formed, neutron stars rotate in space. As they compress and shrink, this spinning speeds up because of the conservation of angular momentum—the same principle that causes a ...

Such a surface feature could explain the maximum spin observed for neutron stars and a possible minimum deformation of radio-emitting neutron stars known as millisecond pulsars. The Laser ...

we hope that big simulations can explain the birth properties of neutron stars and black holes in detail, e.g., their masses, their birth velocities, and how fast they spin," added Müller.

Over time, they lose energy and slow down. Standard theory says that once a neutron star's spin slows beyond a certain point (about one rotation per minute), it should stop emitting radio pulses ...

Simulations of highly magnetized stars that explode and collapse into black holes show that they transfer their magnetic fields to the disk of swirling matter that forms around the new black hole.

Unlike the short bursts produced by pulsars, or rapidly spinning neutron stars, LPTs can last anywhere from a few seconds to nearly an hour, said Natasha Hurley-Walker, radio astronomer and ...