Neutron stars are corpses of massive stars, what's leftover after a big star dies in a supernova explosion. They are so dense that they have about 1.5 to two times the mass of our sun, but ...

A neutron star's final moments may spark violent starquakes, monster shock waves, and even a fleeting, never-before-seen object called a black hole pulsar.

"Assuming this is a neutron star-black hole, I it find amazing that from 2015 to now, in four years, we have gone from the first detection ever to sending an alert out every week," he said.

That only accelerated the companion star’s swelling – it got so big that its outer layers engulfed the neutron star. “And then the trouble comes,” Han says, since such a system is unstable.

"The neutron star's crust will crack open just like the ground in an earthquake," Most says. "The black hole's gravity first shears the surface, causing quakes in the star and the opening of rifts." ...

A dying star either fades into a simmering white dwarf, explodes and then shrinks into a super-dense neutron star or collapses into an all-consuming black hole, depending on its mass.

Dive into the strange and mind-bending world of neutron stars, the dense remnants of massive stars that have met their explosive end. When a star collapses into a neutron star, the result is one ...

Science & Technology New gravitational wave signal helps fill the ‘mass gap’ between neutron stars and black holes A collaboration of researchers including UBC scientists have observed gravitational ...

Neutron stars—the dense remnants of massive stellar explosions—and their presence in X‐ray binaries serve as natural laboratories for extreme physics. In these systems, matter is transferred ...