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It’s a lot of detail about two faraway objects, especially if you consider the astrophysicists only directly observed their extremely violent end. The team…

Astronomers studying archival observations of powerful explosions called short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have detected light patterns indicating the brief…

The analyses were carried out on the Swiss Spallation Neutron Source SINQ in a test…

So far, little is known about the interior of neutron stars, those extremely compact objects that can form after the death of a star: the mass of our sun or…

Millimetre-wavelength light originating from a collision of a neutron star with another star has been captured for the first time by researchers. The team,…

Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) -- an international observatory co-operated by the US National Science Foundation's…

In an intriguing celestial event, a collapsed dense neutron star was caught shredding and devouring its stellar companion to become one of the heaviest…

A fast-spinning neutron star south of the constellation Leo is the most massive of its kind seen so far, according to new observations. The…

In a discovery that could open completely new possibilities for quantum measurements, including research on quantum effects in a gravitational field.,…

In a discovery that could open completely new possibilities for quantum measurements, including research on quantum effects in a gravitational field.,…