neutron stars

Artwork depicting the merger of a neutron star (right) with a black hole (left). Credit: Carl Knox (OzGrav)
A big black hole just ate a much smaller black hole. Or a neutron star. Maybe.
Phil Plait
Jun 24, 2020
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How big is a neutron star?
Phil Plait
Mar 11, 2020
Artwork depicting the magnetic field surrounding a neutron star. Credit: Casey Reed / Penn State University
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A Fast Radio Burster is seen to repeat every 16 days... deepening the mystery
Phil Plait
Feb 17, 2020
A rotating neutron star with a powerful magnetic field whips up subatomic particles around it. Artwork credit: NASA / Swift / Aurore Simonnet, Sonoma State University
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A dead star's spin is dragging the fabric of spacetime along with it
Phil Plait
Feb 4, 2020
Artwork of a pulsar emitting beams of energy as it orbits a white dwarf; the warping of spacetime is depicted as the change in an imaginary grid around them. The pulsar is not to scale; the white dwarf is hundreds of times larger. ESO/L. Calçada
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A new Fast Radio Burst discovery only deepens the mystery of these powerful blasts of energy
Phil Plait
Jan 15, 2020
The 8.2-meter Gemini North telescope took this image of the location of the fast radio burst FRB 180916.J0158+65 (green circle), which is in a star-forming region of a spiral galaxy about 500 million light years from Earth. Credit: Gemini Observatory
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Has Supernova 1987A's elusive neutron star finally been found?
Phil Plait
Nov 25, 2019
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Magnetars are the most powerful magnets in the Universe. Here's how they're made.
Phil Plait
Oct 14, 2019
A physics simulation of two protostars merging to form Tau Scorpii, cut right through their orbital plane. The coloring shows the intensity of the magnetic field, and the cross-hatching its direction. Credit: Ohlmann/Schneider/Röpke
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Record breaker: Astronomers find the most massive neutron star known. Probably the most massive one ever.
Phil Plait
Sep 17, 2019
Pulses from a neutron star (smaller blue sphere) are delayed slightly by the gravity of a white dwarf (bigger sphere) as they pass by, allowing in principle the mass of the two stars to be determined. Credit: BSaxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF
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Astronomers trace a mysterious radio burst to its source… 3.6 billion light years away!
Phil Plait
Jul 1, 2019
A rotating neutron star with a powerful magnetic field whips up subatomic particles around it. Artwork credit: NASA / Swift / Aurore Simonnet, Sonoma State University
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The most compact accreting binary X-ray millisecond pulsar ever!
Phil Plait
Jun 20, 2019
Artwork depicting a millisecond pulsar, sped up to phenomenal rotation rates by material it's eating from its companion star. Credit: NASA / GSFC SVS / Dana Berry
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A nearby binary neutron star collision may have seeded the early solar system with gold
Phil Plait
May 7, 2019
Artwork showing the moment of the neutron star collision, with beams of energy shooting out and gravitational waves shaking ripples in the space-time continuum. Credit: NSF/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet
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For the first time, astronomers see the birth of a neutron star binary system
Phil Plait
Apr 15, 2019
Artwork showing the moment of the neutron star collision, with beams of energy shooting out and gravitational waves shaking ripples in the space-time continuum. Credit: NSF/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet
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FOLLOW-UP: The volume of humanity… if all the space in our atoms is removed
Phil Plait
Oct 30, 2018
A neutron star is incredibly small and dense, packing the mass of the Sun into a ball just a few kilometers across. This artwork depicts one compared to Manhattan. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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WHAM! BULLSEYE! Galactic collision creates a ring of black holes and neutron stars
Phil Plait
Sep 10, 2018
The ring galaxy AM 0644-071, created when a small compact galaxy plowed through the middle of a spiral galaxy at least tens of millions of years ago. Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)
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Last year, two merging neutron stars rocked astronomy. Now it looks like they left behind a black hole.
Phil Plait
Jun 1, 2018
Artwork showing the moment of the neutron star collision, with beams of energy shooting out and gravitational waves shaking ripples in the space-time continuum. Credit: NSF/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet
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Can life emerge after the fires of a supernova?
Phil Plait
Jan 8, 2018
Artwork depicting the three planets orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257_12. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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