Neutron stars

Neutron star. Illustration: depositphotos.com

A neutron star that almost disappeared from the radar has returned, brightening a hundred times

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A distant neutron star is unexpectedly reawakening, releasing powerful X-ray radiation that may reveal what fuels the most extreme stars in the universe.
New high-precision measurements of the masses of phosphorus-26 and sulfur-27 have shed light on how nuclear reactions occur during explosive X-ray bursts in neutron stars (artist's illustration). Illustration: depositphotos.com

Decoding the most powerful explosions in the universe: New data on X-ray bursts

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New precise measurements of the masses of two rare isotopes change our understanding of a critical reaction in X-ray bursts
Still image from the numerical simulation about 1.3 seconds after the neutron star merger. The blue and green contours show the density of matter around the center of the black hole remnant. The purple lines show the magnetic field lines and the arrows show the outflow in the magnetosphere (jet). Credit: K. Hayashi / Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)

Accelerated cosmic collision – supercomputer captures the birth of a black hole in a second and a half

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Researchers used the Pogko supercomputer to simulate the merger of neutron stars – from spinning to black hole formation and gamma-ray burst – and to decipher how heavy elements like gold are formed.
This artist's impression shows how the magnetar shoots material out of the star's crust. The strong magnetic field lines (shaded in green) affect the flow of electric particles. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

When a neutron star explodes, gold is created on a massive scale

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Powerful magnetar flare reveals unexpected source of gold and platinum, offers solution to 20-year-old mystery
A white dwarf orbits a rapidly spinning neutron star. The image was prepared using DALEE and is not a scientific image

716 revolutions per second: the fastest spinning neutron star in the Milky Way

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Using a telescope on the International Space Station, researchers have discovered a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an incredible 716 times per second - among the fastest ever discovered
The coalescence and merger of a black hole from the bottom of the mass gap (surface in dark gray) with a neutron star with colors ranging from dark blue (60 g/cm600) to white (XNUMX kg/cmXNUMX) emphasize the strong deformations of the low-density material of the neutron star Credit: I. Markin (Potsdam University), T. Dietrich (Potsdam University and Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics), H. Pfeiffer, A. Buonanno (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)

Gravitational waves reveal hidden interactions in space

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The analysis of the signal GW230529 picked up by LIGO shows that it originated from the merger of two compact objects, one with a mass between 1.2 and 2.0 times that of the Sun and the other with a mass slightly more than twice the first
Artist's impression of the different layers inside a massive neutron star, with the red circle representing a large quark-matter core. Credit Jyrki Hokkanen, CSC

More evidence for quarks at the centers of massive neutron stars

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A new theoretical analysis puts the probability that massive neutron stars harbor non-configurational quark nuclei between 80 and 90 percent. The result was achieved through massive computer runs using Bayesian statistical inference.
A massive magnetic helium star, on its way to becoming a magnetizer. Figure: ESO

A new type of star has been discovered: a massive magnetic helium star

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Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory discovered that the star HD 45166 is a neutron star about to become a megastar
A black hole swallows its companion star. Illustration: shutterstock

Two gravitational wave events within 10 days: black holes have been discovered that eat neutron stars - "like Pac-Man"

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The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) in the US and the Virago Gravitational Wave Observatory in Italy captured the gravitational waves from the death spiral and merger of a neutron star with a black hole, and not once but
Thanks to a reanalysis of the data from 2017 of the merger event, we have now detected the signature of one defined heavy element within this fireball, the element strontium, proving that a collision of neutron stars caused the creation of this element in the universe. Figure: ESO

First ever detection of a heavy element created by the collision of neutron stars

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This image provides three different perspectives on the gamma ray burst GRB150101B, which is similar to the event where gravitational waves were measured and simultaneously also in the electromagnetic spectrum and there is a similarity between the two cases. In the center, an image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the galaxy where the GRB150101B burst occurred. In the top corner, two X-ray images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory show the event as it appeared on January 9, 2015 (left), and as seen about a month later, on February 10, 2015 (right), as the explosion halo fades, point The bright light is the nucleus of the galaxy.Photo: NASA/CXC

Researchers have retrospectively identified another event of gravitational waves from colliding neutron stars

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The CLASS counter that was used for measurement and is in the accelerator lab in the USA. Photo: Jefferson Lab

A discovery sheds new light on what happens inside the atomic nucleus and in neutron stars

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Radio observations shed light on a neutron star collision event

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Imaging a kilonova: the merger and collision of two tiny but highly compressed neutron stars. Source: ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser.

The prediction from 1989 that came true and the rapid mobilization of astrophysicists to observe the source of gravitational waves with other detectors as well

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The NICER space telescope will study neutron stars during its construction. Photo: NASA

The telescope on the space station that will improve our knowledge of neutron stars will start operating

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A neutron star collision that creates a supernova. Illustration: shutterstock

Prof. Zvi Piren to the Hidaan website: "The solar system was lucky during its formation to receive an excess of heavy elements from a close merger of neutron stars"

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A red giant (and a planet next to it). Illustration: shutterstock

A hybrid star - a neutron star inside a red supergiant

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This artist's illustration, prepared for the Harvard Smithsonian Center, depicts two neutron stars at the moment of collision. New findings confirm that collisions of neutron stars cause short bursts of gamma rays in which the rare metals including gold are produced. All the gold on Earth is believed to have come from such neutron star collisions. illustration

The gold on Earth was created in neutron star collisions

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Neutron star. Figure: European Space Agency (ESA)

Researchers reveal a new phase in the life of a neutron star

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Computer simulation of material ejected during the fusion process of neutron stars (by Stefan Rosweg). The ejected material reaches great distances and creates the radio signal there.

A tool has been developed that will make it possible to discover neutron star mergers that are good candidates for studying gravitational waves

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Supernova SN1979C is a likely candidate for the youngest black hole ever observed. Photo: NASA

The Chandra Space Telescope has discovered an extremely young and relatively nearby black hole

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The signals from the pulsar (behind) pass by a white dwarf and are amplified. Illustration: National Radio Observatory

Astronomers discover the most massive neutron star

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Swift J1749.4-2807 - a double system that also contains a pulsar. Image: NASA

A pulsar in eclipse: the key to understanding the Shapiro delay effect from general relativity

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A merger of a white dwarf and a tiny black hole forming a new tiny black hole. Figure: SLOAN sky survey

An exotic source of cosmic radiation: mini black holes

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Neutron star WR 104 won't kill us

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A new insight into magnets

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Communication through Cepheids - the Galactic Internet

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Forget neutron stars, quark stars may be the most dense objects in the universe

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Cancer death

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A tiny planet has been discovered 1,500 light years away

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This is not a comet - this is a pulsar

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Kindergarten to the stars

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Neutron stars may collide more often

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The traveling star RXJ185635-3754

Please meet - the pilot star

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