The current generation of gravitational wave detectors could "hear" supernovas over 65 million light-years away, helping ...

Artist's impression of a neutron star falling into a black hole Scientists have detected two collisions between a neutron star and a black hole in the space of 10 days. Researchers predicted that ...

The citizen science app, available in eight languages, uses public input to identify kilonovae, neutron star mergers that ...

“It’s the first time that we’ve actually been able to detect a neutron star and a black hole colliding with each other anywhere in the universe,” said Patrick Brady, a professor of physics ...

It is more massive than collapsed stars, known as "neutron stars", but has less mass than black holes. Such "black neutron stars" were not thought possible and will mean ideas for how neutron ...

Black holes are on a continuum of ultradense objects that form from the remnant cores of dead stars after they run out of ...

In February 2016, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) confirmed they made the ...

An international team of astronomers have found a new and unknown object in the Milky Way that is heavier than the heaviest neutron stars known and yet simultaneously lighter than the lightest black ...

Astronomers from the National Central University in Taiwan have investigated an unusual superorbital period variation of an X ...