Illustration of the new method: the researchers use five-dimensional black holes (right) to calculate the phase diagram of strongly coupled matter (middle), enabling simulations of neutron star ...

Neutron stars, the extremely dense remains of massive stars that exploded at the end of their lives, are widely studied ...

An international team of scientists has modeled the formation and evolution of the strongest magnetic fields in the universe. The team used advanced numerical simulations to model the magneto-thermal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By developing a new theoretical relation describing just how compact neutron stars — which are the remnants of massive stars that ...

A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used Frontier to chart the isospin density of a neutron star over a range of conditions. This illustration depicts isospin-dense ...

Sometimes astronomers come across objects in the sky that we can't easily explain. In our new research, published in Science, we report such a discovery, which is likely to spark discussion and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of two ice-blue orbs smashing together, surrounded by warm reddish dust and gas. The collision of two neutron ...

The 'Cosmic Fart' Mystery of a wobbling zombie star's X-ray flares is solved! Discover how Einstein's relativity explains ...

Neutron star mergers are a treasure trove for new physics signals, with implications for determining the true nature of dark matter, according to physicists. Neutron star mergers are a treasure trove ...

Volume rendering of density in a simulation of a binary neutron star merger. New research shows that neutrinos created in the hot interface between the merging stars can be briefly trapped and remain ...

Most ordinary matter is held together by an invisible subatomic glue known as the strong nuclear force — one of the four fundamental forces in nature, along with gravity, electromagnetism, and the ...

When stars collapse, they can leave behind incredibly dense but relatively small and cold remnants called neutron stars. If two stars collapse in close proximity, the leftover binary neutron stars ...