#Neutron star

Author: Lisa Grossman / Source: Science News When a pair of ultradense cores of dead stars smashed into one another, the collision shot a bright jet of charged subatomic particles through space. Astronomers thought no such jet had made it out of the wreckage of the neutron star crash, first

Source: MIT Technology Review An unusually bright star collapse was caught through a telescope. The mystery of the Cow: This past June, an extremely bright object in the sky created an astronomical mystery that was given the name AT2018cow (a.k.a. “the Cow”). The ATLAS survey’s Hawaii-based

Author: Lisa Grossman / Source: Science News A faint, fleeting supernova may be the key to understanding how neutron star duos are born. Astronomers have spotted what seems to be an ultrastripped supernova: a massive star in its death throes after its outer layers of gas have been siphoned off

Author: Lisa Grossman / Source: Science News For the first time, astronomers may have watched a massive stellar explosion give rise in real time to a superdense dead star called a neutron star. New observations of supernova 2012au show charged oxygen and sulfur atoms fleeing the scene of the

Author: Maria Temming / Source: Science News The first observed smashup of two stellar remnants known as neutron stars probably forged the least massive black hole yet discovered, researchers report in the June 1 Astrophysical Journal Letters. This cosmic collision, observed in August 2017, took