Astronomers have made a historic breakthrough: for the first time, a black hole has been observed consuming a neutron star,an event so powerful it sent ripples through the very fabric of space-time.

The only place that's likely to happen is at the very center of our galaxy. And, for a while, there was an excess of ...

If it is massive enough, it will end its life as a black hole. Neutron stars occupy the space in between these two outcomes, though they are by no means the typical fate of a main sequence star.

That mass is significant because it is the Chandrasekhar limit, over which a star can explode in a core-collapse supernova and create a neutron star.

How fast can a neutron star spin? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as an international team of more than a dozen researchers have identified one of ...

Matter in the core of neutron stars is even denser than the nucleus of an atom. As the densest stable form of matter in the universe, it is squashed to its limit and on the brink of collapse into ...

New research suggests that colliding neutron stars can briefly "trap" ghostly particles called neutrinos, which could reveal new secrets about some of space's most extreme events.

Gravitational waves reveal “mystery object” merging with a neutron star The so-called "mass gap" might be less empty than physicists previously thought.

Space & Spaceflight Neutron Stars Spew Jets That Travel at Relativistic Speeds, Scientists Say These fast-moving outbursts of material are slightly different from those launched by black holes.

This was a core-collapse supernova, which occurs when a massive star exhausts its nuclear fuel. These objects can compress into neutron stars or black holes.

Scientists have confirmed what became of a star that exploded in a stunning supernova visible to Earth more than three decades ago. It morphed into a neutron star, one of the oddest objects in the ...