A study led by Prof. Fan Yizhong from the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has achieved significant precision in determining the upper mass limit for non-rotating neutron ...

Neutron stars are some of the weirdest cosmic objects, and the greatest mysteries lie deep in their hearts. Neutron stars' surface gravities are so intense that the largest "mountains" are only a few ...

idea may explain why some neutron stars emit mysterious flickering X-rays. Neutron stars are the collapsed cores of massive stars. They pack roughly one-and-a-half times the mass of our Sun into a ...

Ever since neutron stars were discovered, researchers have been using their unusual properties to probe our universe. The superdense remnants of stellar explosions, neutron stars pack a mass greater ...

Quantum computing and neutron star physics are converging on the same hard problem: how to describe matter when gravity and ...

Astronomers have spotted a mysterious cosmic object that could be the lightest black hole or the heaviest neutron star ever discovered — or something completely new to science. The unknown object, ...

The neutron star PSR J0437 spins hundreds of times a second and has a mass equivalent to 1.4 suns. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...

Researchers who used a telescope in South Africa report discovery of an object in the Milky Way that could either be the most massive neutron star ever observed, or the least massive black hole.

This study shows that the universe itself can push the boundaries of physics in ways laboratory tests cannot. By ruling out ...

False color plot showing the density of the mass in the equatorial (bottom) and meridional, or “southern” (top) planes of a neutron star merger remnant about 100 milliseconds after the merger. In the ...

David Letterman scorches Trump with some blunt leadership advice Loose cartel ties justified first boat strike, official told ...

Forget archaeologists and their lost civilizations, or paleontologists with their fossils—astrophysicist Heloise Stevance studies the past on an entirely different scale. When astronomers catch a ...