The final dance of a black hole and a neutron star before their ultimate merger has been revealed, according to new research.

A fresh analysis of gravitational wave data from a 2020 collision between a black hole and a neutron star has produced the first measured evidence of an eccentric, oval-shaped orbit in this type of ...

Astronomers have witnessed the birth of a rapidly spinning, highly magnetized neutron star or "magnetar" for the first time. The observation of this event, triggered by the death ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Katy has a BA in Humanities and Philosophy, with over 20 years of experience in ...

Most gamma-ray bursts—the brightest, most powerful explosions in the universe—are tracked back to the deaths of massive stars. But a new discovery suggests that such enormous explosions can come from ...

GW200105 reveals an eccentric orbit before merger, challenging formation models.

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

Scientists analyzing a gravitational-wave signal have discovered that a neutron star and black hole spiraled together on an oval-shaped orbit just before merging. This unusual motion, detected in the ...

An international team of scientists, including Northwestern University astrophysicists, has detected 128 new ...

A supernova - the explosion marking the end of a massive star's life - is one of the brightest cosmic events, usually about a billion times more luminous than the sun. But some - a small ​fraction - ...

A cosmic mystery surrounding the universe's most dazzling explosions, superluminous supernovas, appears to have been solved by scientists studying a colossal stellar event a billion light-years from ...

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