Stars often fall into black holes, and now it seems the opposite can also occur, producing an extra long-lasting explosion as ...

Astronomers have used an X-ray spacecraft called XRISM to observe powerful winds blowing from a neutron star — the findings ...

The GWTC 4.0 catalog records 128 new gravitational wave signals, revealing mergers of black holes and neutron stars detected by LIGO.

In a major breakthrough, scientists have simulated in unprecedented detail how a neutron star cracks just seconds before being swallowed by a black hole. The simulation, led by Caltech astrophysicist ...

At the center of the galaxy M87, located about 55 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo, lies M87*, a ...

XRISM found a slow, thick wind from a neutron star, pointing to temperature as the key driver of cosmic wind behavior. The ...

Physicists proposed “beat” patterns in pulsar timing can reveal nanohertz gravitational wave sources, including supermassive ...

A neutron star's final moments may spark violent starquakes, monster shock waves, and even a fleeting, never-before-seen object called a black hole pulsar. The universe is full of spectacular and ...

When people think of black holes, they imagine something dramatic: a star exploding in space, collapsing in on itself, and forming a cosmic monster that eats everything around it. But what if black ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Images of Calvera, a strange celestial system containing a runaway pulsar and a supernova remnant ...

The field of astrophysics continues to probe the extreme regimes of matter and gravity through studies of neutron stars and black holes. These compact objects, forged in the aftermath of stellar ...