Overall, the simulations performed by Müller, Heger and Powell suggest that the low-mass star in the binary system J0453 + 1559 could in fact be a neutron star. In their next studies, the ...

Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 million years ago. Kilonovas occur when binary neutron stars spiral closer and ...

One of the common misconceptions about black holes is that they devour not only matter, but also the history of that matter.

New approach could aid “multimessenger” astronomy by quickly locating sources of gravitational waves emitted during these ...

We can usually only weigh a neutron star (measure how massive it is) when it is in a binary star system with another object, such as a white dwarf or another neutron star. However, in these ...

Small stars that are far away tend to be faint and hard to see. De Ruiter and her colleagues used the Multiple Mirror ...

Artistic illustration showing the radio pulses emitted by the binary star system ... anything expected from known radio-emitting neutron stars, or pulsars*, which produce pulses on the order ...

The team tracked the signal back to a strange binary system containing a dead ... bursts like this one had only been traced back to neutron stars, meaning this work puts an entirely new spin ...

By Alimat Aliyeva A group of European, British, and American astronomers has discovered 34 binary white dwarf systems i ...

"There are several highly magnetized neutron stars, or magnetars ... "That is convincing evidence that the red dwarf is in a binary system." This back-and-forth rocking of this star seems to ...