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Even if the presence of a neutron star or black hole in this supernova wreckage can be confirmed, the SN 2022jli system is still unique.
Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...
“There is no other object like the neutron star in Supernova 1987A, so close to us and having formed so recently. Because the material surrounding it is expanding, we will see more of it as time ...
An unusual star system created more of a fizz and less of a bang when it exploded in a supernova. The “ultra-stripped” supernova led researchers to discover the two stars 11,000 light-years ...
In 2015, astrophysicists discovered a system consisting of two compact stars orbiting each other: a pulsar (i.e., a highly ...
If astronomers could catch bursts of gamma rays from supernova explosions that create neutron stars near the Milky Way, the mystery of dark matter could be wrapped up in 10 seconds.
What would happen if you put a baseball-sized piece of neutron star on the Earth? Would it fall to the core of the Earth and ...
Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...