Neutron stars harbor some of the most extreme environments in the universe: their densities soar to several times those of ...

A research team is using astrophysical explosions to understand the mysterious forces at work in some of the smallest building blocks in nature: atomic nuclei. In new research published in Nature ...

Some of the universe’s densest objects can twist, stretch, and resonate in ways that challenge even the most seasoned ...

The catastrophic collision of a black hole and a neutron star sent ripples across the universe. New analysis of those ripples ...

Delve into the enigmatic realm of neutron stars—stellar remnants that defy our conventional understanding. Once blazing stars, now they stand as super-heavy celestial entities with masses that boggle ...

Scientists report over 100 new gravitational wave detections, doubling the known catalog of black hole and neutron star mergers, providing new data on extreme cosmic collisions.

A fresh analysis of gravitational wave data from a 2020 collision between a black hole and a neutron star has produced the first measured evidence of an eccentric, oval-shaped orbit in this type of ...

Researchers found a magnetic star core acting as a high speed engine to power a record breaking luminous supernova.

An international team of scientists, including Northwestern University astrophysicists, has detected 128 new ...

When the densest objects in the universe collide and merge, the violence sets off ripples, in the form of gravitational waves ...

Professor Sir Anthony Leggett, the theoretical physicist who has died aged 87, shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics for his ...