Merging black holes and neutron stars have unusual oval orbits prior to colliding and merging, which challenge the laws of ...
Breakthrough discovery provides new clues about how these celestial bodies - that push the known laws of physics to their limits - find each other.
The catastrophic collision of a black hole and a neutron star sent ripples across the universe. New analysis of those ripples could upend a major theory about how these extreme pairs form.
Despite significant scientific advancement over the last decades, the universe still finds new ways to surprise us. Every ...
When English author J.R.R. Tolkien crafted his fantasy world Middle-earth, he argued storytellers are essentially “sub-creators” – they build fictional realms with internally consistent laws. For a ...
When it comes to world building, some authors really put the effort in. In a new study, climate scientists attempted to model the environments of Westeros and Middle Earth – from A Song of Ice and ...
A fleet of NASA space telescopes has traced a brief flash of gamma rays to a likely collision between two neutron stars, placing the violent event inside a tiny, gas-shrouded galaxy that had escaped ...
Anastasios (Andy) Tzanidakis was combing through old telescope data from 2020 when he found an otherwise boring star acting very strangely. The star, named Gaia20ehk, was about 11,000 light-years from ...
Two new studies have measured the expansion of the universe in our immediate cosmic neighborhood using a novel method that ...
An international team of scientists, including Northwestern University astrophysicists, has detected 128 new ...
New high-resolution simulations reveal that stellar rotation plays a crucial role in transporting material inside red giant stars.
Superluminous supernovas are the brightest stellar explosions in the universe. Astronomers may have found a mechanism that can trigger these events.
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