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Neutrinos are cosmic tricksters, paradoxically hardly there but lethal to stars significantly more massive than the sun.
"Transitional millisecond pulsars are cosmic laboratories that help us understand how neutron stars evolve in binary systems." ...
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 ...
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.
Astronomers led by Simon Portegies Zwart used simulations to reconstruct how three stars were ejected from the star cluster R136, 60,000 years ago. The analysis, published in Physical Review Letters, ...
For the first time, astronomers have spotted a star that exploded not once, but twice. A new image of a roughly 300-year-old supernova provides visual evidence that some dying stars undergo a double ...