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 simulation starts with very few assumptions—neutron stars with strong magnetic fields orbiting each other—and evolves the binary self-consistently over time based on basic physical principles.

Merging neutron stars are excellent targets for multi-messenger astronomy. This modern and still very young method of astrophysics coordinates observations of the various signals from one and the same ...

Scientists have discovered that gravitational waves could turn neutron stars into cosmic tuning forks with characteristic reverberations that reveal their interiors.

Because the geometry of undulating gravitational displacement fields [2] traveling along gravitational field lines resembles waves on a string or in water, scalar Planck waves are transverse in nature ...

Lagrangian Point In Lagrangian mechanics, a Lagrangian point (or L-point) is one of five positions in space where the gravitational fields of two bodies of substantial but differing mass combine to ...

Magnetars, neutron stars with the strongest magnetic fields in the universe, play a critical role in this context. We aim to underscore the significance of magnetars in TDAMM, highlighting the ...

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

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 ...

What’s new — As it turns out, all they needed to do was build, what the researchers are calling, the tiniest ever laboratory-created gravitational field.

Neutron stars are the perfect cosmic laboratory for the scientists who study them, thanks to their observability, extreme gravity, and strong magnetic fields. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada.