Gravitational waves—the ghostly ripples in spacetime first predicted by Einstein and finally detected a century later by advanced observatories—have sparked a revolution in astrophysics ...

For the first time, astronomers have evidence of gravitational waves that were created when black holes devoured dense neutron stars. The gravitational waves were created nearly a billion years ...

Neutron stars are small and dense, which gives them an intense gravitational field – one so powerful it can bend the light emitted on their far side around towards the front of the star.

After the collision of these two particularly hefty neutron stars, researchers say the final merged product was likely massive enough (at 3.4 solar masses) to collapse into a black hole, gobbling ...

Put on the brakes. A spinning neutron star that shifts between two states slows at a faster rate in one of them – and gravitational waves may be responsible.. The neutron star J1023+0038 spins ...

Still image from the numerical simulation at around 1.3 seconds after the neutron star merger. The contours in blue and green show the density of the matter around the central remnant black hole. The ...

The gravitational fields around the neutron star are so intense, for example, that most of the X-rays we can see from Earth are actually coming from the far side of the star.

Now, astronomers believe they've detected a gravitational wave coming from another first-time discovery: a black hole swallowing a neutron star. Content Skip to Main Content Accessibility Help ...

Astrophysicists looking for gravitational waves should set their sights on mountainous neutron stars, according to a new numerical study by researchers in the US. The study also suggests that the ...

Credit: Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics A complete picture. The simulation starts with very few assumptions—neutron stars with strong magnetic fields orbiting each other—and ...

While the gravitational-wave signal does not provide enough information to determine with certainty whether each of these compact objects are neutron stars or black holes, it seems likely that the ...