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Fifty experts on nuclear physics, particle physics and astrophysics met at CERN from 9 to 13 June to discuss how to use ...
See a pair of superheavy neutron stars collide in this simulation with gravitational wave audio. "An audible tone and a ...
Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...
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The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.
Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...
Binary neutron star mergers, cosmic collisions between two very dense stellar remnants made up predominantly of neutrons, have been the topic of numerous astrophysics studies due to their ...
This artist’s conception shows the collision of two neutron stars on Aug. 17. The event was detected in both gravitational waves and, more significantly, light. Jonah B. Kanner / Caltech ...
"This discovery heralds a broader understanding of the diversity in massive stars' deaths and a need for deeper investigations into the whole landscape of stellar evolution." ...
The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...
Astronomers from the University of Turku have detected quasi-periodic oscillations in an X-ray binary, XTE J0111.2−7317, ...
A cataclysmic variable star was found as part of a project using two telescopes from opposite sides of the world.