One of the papers, published last year, describes the simulated results of quakes on the surface of neutron stars before they ...

Across the cosmos, many stars can be found in pairs, gracefully circling one another. Yet one of the most dramatic pairings ...

A new simulation by researchers shows how a neutron star violently cracks seconds before vanishing into a black hole.

Merging neutron stars are excellent targets for multi-messenger astronomy. This modern and still very young method of ...

Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole ripping apart and devouring a star in colliding galaxies. It is only the ...

Some stars streaking through the Milky Way at millions of kilometers per hour probably trace back to a supermassive black ...

A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of hot gas surrounding a black hole and releasing powerful bursts of X-rays in the process. Soon, ...