neutron stars
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Famous Neutron Star Just Glitched In A Huge Way
On November 8, 2017, a spinning neutron star inside one of the most studied objects in the sky “glitched” more than it had ever glitched before.
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Scientists Observe Red Giant Waking Up Neutron Star In A Flash
Neutron stars aren’t the twinkle-twinkle kind you typically see in the night sky. They’re stellar corpses, and incredibly dense sources of gravity, with perhaps 1.5 times the mass of the Sun packed into an area only a couple of dozen kilometres across. Around 9000 light years away from Earth, one neutron stars seems to have…
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Radio Brightening Around Monumental Neutron Star Collision Tells A Confusing Story
August’s landmark observation of two colliding neutron stars was incredible for its immediate impact on astronomy. It answered questions, like “where did the universe’s gold come from” and “how fast is the universe expanding?” But it left behind mysteries, too. Like, “what the hell is going on with those gamma rays?”
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NASA Shows How Neutron Stars Collide To Form Black Holes
NASA Goddard has created an impressive supercomputer simulation of one of the most violent events in the universe: a battle to the death between two neutron stars, ripping each other apart and colliding until they form a black hole. Even if it’s just a simulation, looking at the scale and forces involved blows my mind.