See a pair of superheavy neutron stars collide in this simulation with gravitational wave audio. "An audible tone and a visual frequency scale (at left) track the steady rise in the frequency of ...

When two neutron stars collide, they unleash some of the most powerful forces in the universe, creating ripples in spacetime, ...

Astronomers may have recorded the violent birth of one of the weirdest objects our Universe is capable of producing.

An artistic illustration of the magnetar and the gamma-ray burst jet in this work (Illustration: Yuja Tian and Yuting Wu, ...

The burst seems to have been caused by a highly extraordinary event, but scientists don’t yet know exactly what that could be ...

Researchers think a mysterious signal, dubbed GW190521, could have arrived from a parallel universe after passing through a ...

Few of them would have resulted in as different a movie as Interstellar would have been if it were directed by Steven Spielberg — which very nearly happened. As it turns out, the greatest filmmaker of ...

4. Best of both worlds: Multimessenger astronomy is born! As you might imagine, when stellar remnants as extreme as neutron stars collide, there is quite a burst of energy, and not just in ...

As the nucleus splits, it also releases its neutrons. These neutrons bounce around at incredible speeds until some eventually ...

New simulations of neutron star mergers reveal that the mixing and changing of tiny particles called neutrinos impacts how ...

Our readers agree that in the unlikely event you were able to approach a neutron star, it would look very smooth and bright ...