Tagged: neutron stars

Neutron stars may not be as weighty as their more massive black hole cousins, but they can be just as mighty when it comes to generating awesome X-ray fireworks. Since the 1980s, astronomers have studied sources of intense X-rays erupting from the outer regions of...

The first-ever observations of merging binary stars stunned the astronomy community last year, but not quite as much as the first-ever signal from extraterrestrial life might someday stun the world. And a new paper argues that the observations of an binary-star merger may actually be...

Astronomers are still focused on the collision of the two collapsed star cores that took place about 138 million light-years away and sent gravitational waves rippling through the universe. The afterglow of the neutron star has steadily brightened in recent months, and for now researchers...