Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

A groundbreaking simulation reveals how neutron star mergers forge black holes, generate gamma-ray bursts, and scatter gold ...

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

A computer simulation shows how two neutron stars of unequal mass merge, form a black hole and spit out a jet of high energy matter.

More information: Kota Hayashi et al, Jet from Binary Neutron Star Merger with Prompt Black Hole Formation, Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.211407 ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have instead ...

Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black hole, it gets torn apart in a fireworks show called a tidal disruption ...

A pulsar is typically a rapidly rotating neutron star that emits beams of radiation, visible across vast distances. In a black hole pulsar, however, the black hole itself replaces the neutron star.

Astronomers from the University of Turku have detected quasi-periodic oscillations in an X-ray binary, XTE J0111.2−7317, ...