Neutron stars are ultra-dense star remnants made up primarily of nucleons (i.e., protons and neutrons). Over the course of ...
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Cold neutron stars narrow the search for undiscovered fifth force in nature
The logic behind the researchers’ approach was straightforward. If scalar particles interact strongly with nucleons, neutron ...
A new paper published in Nature Communications could put scientists on the path to understanding one of the wildest, hottest, ...
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How close I can get to a drop of neutrons
In this video I show you what happens when you try to get close to 1 drop of a neutron star. I tell you how a neutron star is ...
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Award for research into rare cosmic explosions and metals
Rare cosmic explosions have earned an international award for an astrophysics collaboration led by an Oxford professor.
A small star named M82 X-2 breaks physical barriers, as NASA's NuSTAR confirms it shines 10 million times brighter than the ...
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Have gravitational waves provided the first hint of primordial black holes born during the Big Bang?
"If this turns out to be real, then it’s enormous." ...
Artificial intelligence tools are boosting researchers’ productivity, but some worry about the effect of a growing reliance ...
Astronomers from Texas have witnessed the moment a star’s surface is torn apart by a supernova, becoming oblong in the ...
FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power.
Most of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy. The majority of everything else is dispersed throughout space ...
Astronomers mapped supernova SN 2024ggi for the first time, revealing an elongated shockwave, challenging old stellar ...
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