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.

Located in Dongguan, Guangdong province, CSNS is China's first and the world's fourth pulsed spallation neutron source, operated by the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of ...

Merging black holes and neutron stars have unusual oval orbits prior to colliding and merging, which challenge the laws of ...

In December 2024, astronomers watched a star around 25 times the mass of our sun die in a blaze of glory. Located one billion light-years from Earth, SN 2024afav was a prime example of a superluminous ...

A UC Santa Barbara graduate student alongside a local nonprofit research group have advanced the frontiers of physics while ...

The magnum opus of particle physics is far from complete, requiring physicists to devise many alternatives—some weirder than ...

Superluminous supernovas are the brightest stellar explosions in the universe. Astronomers may have found a mechanism that can trigger these events.

When scientists unwittingly turned helium into a superfluid — a feat many thought was impossible — Dr. Leggett not only recognized what had happened but also explained how.

Researchers report superluminous supernova SN 2024afav whose erratic behavior supports a long-standing theory of stellar ...

A new study explains how some supernovas are particularly dazzling—the glow from a magnetic, spinning ball of neutrons called a magnetar. An assist from Einstein is what settled the case ...

Voluna Inc. and Clandestine Materials Detection, Inc. (CMD) today announced a strategic collaboration designed to accelerate the development and deployment of innovative materials detection ...

Scientists have uncovered the first robust evidence of a black hole and neutron star crashing together but orbiting in an ...