We all know how weird black holes are, but did you know there is another type of star that is just as strange? Welcome to the universe of neutron stars.

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Ground-based radio telescopes, gravitational wave detectors, and a space-based X-ray telescope (right) all measure neutron stars (top left, shown merging), lending insight into the pairing of ...

Neutron stars harbor some of the most extreme environments in the universe: their densities soar to several times those of ...

Some of the universe’s densest objects can twist, stretch, and resonate in ways that challenge even the most seasoned ...

Daniel Reardon receives funding from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav). Neutron stars are some of the most extreme objects in the universe.