Astronomers Catch Powerful ‘Zombie Star’ Speeding Through the Milky Way, Have No Idea Where It is From The Hubble Space ...

Scientists at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics found a single giant flare from a ...

"Magnetars are neutron stars — the ... are tantalizingly close in the sky over Earth. However, a decade of investigation with ...

NASA scientists are tracking a star which is so powerful it would rip a human apart if they came within 600 miles - and they ...

Astronomers have discovered that the magnetar SGR 0501+4516 is speeding through our galaxy at more than 110,000 mph. This ...

Neutron star mergers are collisions between neutron stars, the collapsed cores of what were once massive supergiant stars.

And if this hole is spinning sufficiently fast, powerful jets are launched along its rotational axes—jets that can end up containing ... space as the star is ripped apart. The neutron-forming ...

We don't really know, but probably some truly bizarre physics. Neutron stars are some of the weirdest cosmic objects, and the greatest mysteries lie deep in their hearts. Neutron stars are the ...

This discovery is important because it helps scientists understand the extreme physics of neutron stars and the behaviour of ...