Scientists just got to watch nearly the entirety of a kilonova explosion caused by a neutron star merger, thanks to a multi-national telescopic effort. The kilonova briefly mimicked the conditions ...

Locating sources of gravitational waves using artificial intelligence could enable astronomers to point telescopes at stellar ...

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Binary neutron star mergers occur millions of light-years away from Earth. Interpreting the gravitational waves they produce ...

A team of scientists has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to observe an exceptionally bright gamma-ray burst, GRB 230307A, and its associated kilonova. Kilonovas—an explosion produced by ...

Neural network registers gravitational wave signal from neutron star collisions early on and shows telescopes where to find ...

A kilonova — a powerful explosion associated with merging of neutron stars — is one of the most promising sites for rapid neutron capture process that can produce these elements." Yoshida ...

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Neutron star mergers emit visible light (in the subsequent kilonova explosion) and other electromagnetic radiation in addition to gravitational waves. “Rapid and accurate analysis of the gravitational ...