When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A rupture in the crust of a highly magnetized neutron star, shown here in an artist’s rendering, ...

In a study published in The Astrophysical Journal, scientists have proposed the features of rapid neutron capture process (r-process) nucleosynthesis in a novel scenario, common envelope jet ...

The merger simulated by Hayashi and his colleagues is between two neutron stars of different masses, one of 1.25 and the other of 1.65 solar masses. Their simulation was rooted in the so-called SFHo ...

Neutron star mergers are collisions between neutron stars, the collapsed cores of what were once massive supergiant stars. These mergers are known to generate gravitational waves, energy-carrying ...

Physicists provide a viable and testable explanation for how UHECRs are created. Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays are the highest-energy particles in the universe, whose energies are more than a million ...

For the first time, researchers have simultaneously measured the gravitational waves and the light from two merging neutron stars. ‘Multi-messenger astronomy’, combining the observation of ...

Rochester Institute of Technology is advancing computer simulations to predict, for the first time, the complete cycle of neutron stars merging with other neutron stars or black holes. These extreme ...

The option to measure the gravitational waves of two merging neutron stars has offered the chance to answer some of the fundamental questions about the structure of matter. At the extremely high ...

Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions, providing direct experimental data for a process that had previously only been theorised. The study provides new ...