Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...

Fast radio bursts — powerful and poorly understood cosmic eruptions — tend to occur in massive galaxies that host long-dead ...

When the two neutron stars collide, the initial kilonova of exploded neutron star guts is extremely hot, billions of degrees, ...

The most luminous kilonova candidate to date (short gamma-ray burst 200522A) was detected using the Hubble Space Telescope, ...

Astrophysicists have, for the first time, measured the temperature of elementary particles in the radioactive afterglow of a neutron star collision, which led to the formation of a black hole. This br ...

Astrophysicists have observed an extraordinary event following the collision of two neutron stars—the explosive birth of a ...

The temperature of elementary particles has been observed in the radioactive glow following the collision of two neutron stars and the birth of a black hole. This has, for the first time, made it ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — The temperature of elementary particles has been observed in the radioactive glow following the collision of two neutron stars and the birth of a black hole. This has, for the ...

This artist's illustration shows a neutron star collision leaving behind a rapidly expanding cloud of radioactive material.