Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

See a pair of superheavy neutron stars collide in this simulation with gravitational wave audio. "An audible tone and a ...

S cientists have developed the longest and most complex simulation to date of a binary neutron star collision that results in ...

Pulsars and neutron stars are some of the most fascinating and mysterious objects in the universe. In this video, we explore ...

Merging neutron stars are excellent targets for multi-messenger astronomy. This modern and still very young method of astrophysics coordinates observations of the various signals from one and the ...

An artist's concept of a black hole orbited by a neutron star. Image: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) When a black hole and a neutron star finally meet, the result is cosmic carnage—and now, thanks to ...

"The neutron star's crust will crack open just like the ground in an earthquake," Most says. "The black hole's gravity first shears the surface, causing quakes in the star and the opening of rifts." ...

A neutron star's final moments may spark violent starquakes, monster shock waves, and even a fleeting, never-before-seen object called a black hole pulsar.

For astrophysicists, neutron stars stand out as objects of irresistible fascination — perhaps, in part, because of how difficult they are to decipher. But calculations conducted on the Frontier ...

The zombie neutron star is extremely dense, holding about as much mass as one to two Suns, in a sphere that only spans about 20km in diameter, so the resulting extreme gravitational field means ...

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...